Who appointed the justice who Judge Sonia Sotomayor replaced on the Supreme Court?
David Souter David Hackett Souter ( ; born September 17, 1939) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J. Brennan, Jr., Souter sat on both the Rehnquist and Roberts courts and came to vote reliably with the court's liberal members.
Lawton Nuss Lawton R. Nuss (born December 30, 1952) is a Kansas Supreme Court Justice appointed by Governor Bill Graves in August 2002. He is the current Chief Justice upon Robert E. Davis's resignation.