Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

U.S. SENATOR Jeff Bingaman

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Contact Senator Bingaman's Office:

Jude McCartin
Maria Najera
703 Hart Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5521

Bingaman: President Nominates Judge Sotomayor to Supreme Court

SANTA FE – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman issued the following statement about President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States:

“I have never met Judge Sotomayor but everything I’m aware of would indicate that she is a very well qualified appointee,” Bingaman said.

Sotomayor, who is of Puerto Rican descent, earned degrees from Princeton University and Yale Law School.  Her judicial service began in October 1992 with her appointment to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H.W. Bush.  President Clinton appointed Sotomayor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1998. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a hearing on Sotomayor in the coming weeks.  Bingaman is not a member of that committee.