Sonia Sotomayor, the newly sworn in Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, makes six (6) the number of Catholics now on the Court. She attended a Catholic school as a child as did Roberts, Scalia and Thomas. The other Catholics on the Court are Alito and Kennedy. Ginsburg and Breyer are Jews and the only Protestant is Stevens. Of the 110 who have served on the Supreme Court, only eleven have been Catholics, now six of those current, and most of them nominated by Republican Presidents.

Justice Sotomayor is 55 years old and born of Puerto Rican immigrants and raised in the Bronx. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and obtained her law degree from Yale where she edited the Yale Law Journal. Before entering private practice in 1984, she was an Assistant District Attorney in New York. President George H.W. Bush nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1991. Many remember her as the judge who signed the document that ended the 1995 baseball strike. In 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated her to the U.S. Court of Appeals. 

Regardless of your political affiliation or views, you have to respect the many accomplishments of this woman and wish her well, as do I.

Wikipedia posts a lengthy bio.