Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in 2009, making her the third female Justice in the highest court. As a Puerto Rican girl growing up in a single-parent home in a Bronx housing project in New York, her journey was not an easy one. Her ethnic heritage, family background, and severe health issues had their own set of challenges in school, work, and life, but they are all part of her success story as a pioneering woman. Combined with her perseverance, these experiences made her what she is today. Using the Productive Giftedness Model (PGM, Paik, Creatively gifted students are not like other gifted students: Research, theory, and practice, 101–119, 2013; Paik, International Encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 272–278, 2015), this chapter delineates the strength-based factors that help tell her story. Defined as excellence and mastery, Sotomayor achieved “productive giftedness”: she developed her potential, which led to productive outcomes, including eminence in her field. Psychosocial and environmental factors such as motivation, time allocations, parents, mentors, peers, teachers, and schooling experiences all played a role in her development. Too few stories and limited research highlight the strengths and successes of women of color, especially from historically underrepresented communitiesAchievement (extraordinary)in historically excluded groups. Much can be learned from such stories, including how to better support underserved populations in developing their potential into talent.