The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

as for the possibility of 'having it all,' career and family with no sacrifice to either, that is a myth we would do well to abandon, together with the pernicious notion that a woman who chooses one of the other is somehow deficient.