Sotomayor Calls for More Diversity on the High Court

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Victor Urbaez' children

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says the Supreme Court needs more diversity, amid the politically charged debate about filling a vacancy on the high court.  

"I … think there is a disadvantage from having (five) Catholics, three Jews, everyone from an Ivy League school," Sotomayor, the court's first Latina justice, said Friday at Brooklyn Law School.  

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/09/sotomayor-wants-more-diversity-on-court-after-obama-picks-garland-white-ivy-male.html

What Justice Sotomayor sems to be stating is that diversity is multi-faceted, geographical area the justices are from, the law

Full Circle Moment for Judge Cortes CONGRATS

The life of California's Yolo County’s first Latina judge, Sonia Cortes, has now come full circle with her official “robing.”

Cortes, the daughter of farm workers and a Winters High School graduate who went on to obtain a legal degree and become an attorney, took the oath of office before a capacity crowd in the auditorium of Pioneer High School Friday night.

“Those ambitions led my parents to settle in a small house in Winters where they would work in the fields, pick crops and think about the future of their three daughters,” she said. ... The family moved to Yolo Housing — the same migrant housing she would one day be put in charge of successfully reorganizing — “where I would watch rerun episodes of Perry Mason and think I one day, too, would be a lawyer.”

“And my road leads me to this moment, where the governor has appointed me. And here I am before you the first Latina to be appointed a judge in Yolo County,” she said. “Today is an

It's Never Too Late for Law School

Entre los más de 2.000 estudiantes que se graduaron hace un par de semanas en la Universidad Santiago de Cali, el cabello blanco de uno de ellos llamó la atención del auditorio.

Era el cabello de Miguel Ángel Ararat, de 70 años, quien culminó sus estudios de Derecho, decisión que se arriesgó a tomar a los 56, ante el pesimismo de muchos de sus amigos.

El ahora abogado Miguel Ángel Ararat celebró su título profesional junto a sus 19 nietos y cinco bisnietos. Asegura que ahora planea cursar un posgrado en derecho de familia.

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http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/cali/colombiano-se-graduo-como-abogado-a-los-70-anos-en-cali/15726778

Among the 2,000 plus graduates a few weeks ago in the University of Santiago de Cali, his grey head of hair stood out and demanded attention in the auditorium.  It was the grey head of Miguel Angel Ararat, 70 years old, who completed the

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