While perhaps her appointment won’t be met with the same fanfare as President Obama’s election to the highest office, folks probably won’t be running to newsstands tomorrow to gobble up every last newspaper on the shelves, and I doubt people will organize bus rides to DC for her confirmation as if making a pilgrimage to Mecca but yet the nomination of federal court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme court is just as Historic as the Obama victory.

Sotomayor (54), a Puerto Rican descendant grew up in a South Bronx housing project made HISTORY Tuesday as the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court.  If confirmed, Sotomayor will succeed retiring Associate Justice David Souter.  The appointment is President Obama’s first during his very short term. As a South Bronx native we can without question consider her a child of hip hop as the culture began to take shape in the borough during her formidable years.

Brief History:

Her father, a factory worker, died when she was 9 so her mother supported Sotomayor and her brother, now a doctor, by working at methadone clinics.

She enrolled at Princeton University, an experience she described as the “single most growing event of my life” and graduated summa cum laude in 1976. She earned her law degree at Yale, where she was editor of the law journal.

President H.W. Bush (the first one), a Republican, appointed Sotomayor to Manhattan Federal Court in 1992 and President Clinton, a Democrat, elevated her to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.

While Sotomayor faces an uphill nomination process which I won’t get into (you’ll get your fair share of that on FOX News) I’d like to just encourage all of you to bask in the enormity of the situation.

Sotomayor as you might imagine growing up from her meager beginnings is a survivor story, a true example of the American dream.  In an interview with the Daily News in 1998, Sotomayor, a diehard Yankees fan (boooooo!), said she long believed she would rise to the top of her profession.  “I was going to college and I was going to become an attorney, and I knew that when I was 10,” Sotomayor said. “Ten. That’s no jest.”  In, 1995, she famously took only 15 minutes to issue an injunction that soon led to the settlement in the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike. (BIG!)

On behalf of the entire Highbrid Nation, I’d like to send a strong salute out to soon-to-be Chief Justice Sotomayor.  Boricua STAND UP!