Obama Nominates Baby Boomer Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court
Obama Nominates Baby Boomer Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court-Will The Bench Become More Deversided?
Facts about Sonia Sotomayor:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s parents came to New York from Puerto Rico during World War II. Her father worked in a factory and didn’t speak English. She grew up in the Bronx, in a public housing project. Still she eat the odds and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and went on to attend Yale law school.
In her 30 year judicial career, she has worked at nearly every level of the judicial system, and on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009, she became President Obama’s pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. A dream come true for Judge Sotomayor and American Latino’s.
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I have a bad feeling about this but we will see what happens down the road.
Actually, Sotomayor isn’t a Boomer, but rather a member of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term.
It is important to distinguish between the post-WWII demographic boom in births vs. the cultural generations born during that era. Generations are a function of the common formative experiences of its members, not the fertility rates of its parents. Many experts now believe it breaks down this way:
DEMOGRAPHIC boom in babies: 1946-1964
Baby Boom GENERATION: 1942-1953
Generation Jones: 1954-1965
Generation X: 1966-1978
Here is an op-ed about GenJones as the new generation of leadership in USA TODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090127/column27_st.art.htm
Hello Patty,
Welcome to BBAC and thanks for the great comment…
Sonia Sotomayer is a Baby Boomer. Born
June 25, 1954 (1954-06-25) (age 54)
The Bronx, New York
The new names that divide baby Boomers into other categories are just just new names for Baby Boomers…that want/need to be put in other categories. I remember when they started and who started them…
Happy Belated Birthday Sonia…you are a Baby Boomer
We hope to see you again and soon, Patty.
Southern smiles and world peace,
Sharon
~The Baby Boomer Queen~