The Life Experiences That Made Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Badass She Is Today

Her mother, Celina, who was part of the Women's Auxiliary Corps during World War II, and worked hard as a nurse to give Sotomayor and her brother an education at a private Catholic school. She excelled in school and got a scholarship to study at Princeton University. "Each child has to have within them a desire to achieve something. For me, my initial goals were just to graduate from college because nobody in my family had done it," she told Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.