Fact 1: Appointed by Barack Obama in 2009

Fact 2: She was the first Hispanic and Latina justice

Fact 3: Sotomayer graduated from Princeton and Yale

Fact 4: Before the Supreme Court, Sotomayer oversaw more than 3,000 cases

Fact 5: Sotomayer favored with a plaintiff in a case against the MLB, ending the baseball strikes of 1994

Fact 6: Third female justice in Supreme Court history

Fact 7: Diagnosed with diabetes at age 8

Fact 8: Threw the first pitch at Yankee Stadium in 2009