Carolyn Fuentes, an assistant federal public defender from San Antonio, made history in the annals of U.S. Supreme Court advocacy on April 17.

Fuentes became the first Hispanic woman to argue twice before the high court, according to Maria Mendoza, a D.C. attorney who has compiled statistics about the short list of Hispanics who have appeared before the justices through history.

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