In case you didn’t know, one of the judges on our nation’s highest court lives with type 1 diabetes. That is Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine people serving on the Supreme Court of the ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke out this week about her Type 1 diabetes, calling attention to the issue—a condition that as many as 3 million Americans know well.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discussing how living with Type 1 Diabetes has strengthened her understanding and appreciation of life.

President Obama chose to focus on Sonia Sotomayor's Puerto Rican heritage, childhood in public housing projects and Yale Law School training in nominating the appeals court judge to the Supreme ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was 7 years old when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. At the time of her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2009, some critics questioned whether Sotomayor ...

Sotomayor, who is 70, has been public about living with type 1 diabetes, though she has shown little sign of slowing down. She is a relentless questioner during oral arguments and has appeared in ...

By contrast, Sotomayor is not even 70-years-old. Diabetes, while potentially life-threatening, is a condition that affects 11.6% of Americans, with some 2 million people living with Type 1 ...

Sotomayor, who has Type 1 diabetes, is the oldest liberal-leaning Supreme Court justice, but younger than both Justice Samuel Alito, 74, and Justice Clarence Thomas, 75, who are both conservative.

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1) Sotomayor, at 69, is already several years older than the median American retirement age; 2) The justice’s Type 1 diabetes might indicate a more complicated health map than that of a typical ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discussing how living with Type 1 Diabetes has strengthened her understanding and appreciation of life.