United States: Supreme Court Nominee Is Role Model in the Bronx.

Section: General News - Confirmation hearings are set to begin July 13 for President Obama's first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court: federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York City. Sotomayor, 55, would be the first Supreme Court justice of Hispanic descent and the first to come from the South Bronx, a poor neighborhood in northern New York City.

In the Bronx neighborhood where Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor grew up, a young man said her nomination means a great deal to him. It shows that we could be somebody, because she made it out of here, said William Vargas. A lot of kids, because we're from the projects, a lot of people don't want to give us opportunities to be somebody, and it just motivates people like us to be …