Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor (2nd Cir.) is shown here in 2004 in New York with Judge Robert A. Katzmann (2nd Cir.) and Judge Damon J. Keith (6th Cir.) viewing the Marching Toward Justice display on the history of the 14th Amendment. Sotomayor was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1992. She was elevated to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998.