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  2. List of African American federal judges - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of African Americans who have served as United States federal judges. As of December 20, 2024 [update] , 301 African-Americans have served on the federal bench. United States Supreme Court

  3. President Biden breaks record for most Black judges confirmed ...

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    800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Biden has appointed several “first” Black judges across the nation’s district courts and courts of appeals, including ...

  4. President Biden marks historic 40th Black female judge ... - AOL

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    The confirmation of Judge Tiffany Rene Johnson also ties the record for the most Black lifetime judges confirmed during a presidency. President Joe Biden marked yet another historic moment for his ...

  5. List of African American jurists - Wikipedia

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    First African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States Charlotte E. Ray (1850–1911) [14] First Black American female lawyer in the United States Scovel Richardson (1912–1982) [15] Party to a housing desegregation case anticipating Shelley v. Kraemer; also a judge in federal courts from 1957

  6. Ketanji Brown Jackson - Wikipedia

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    On September 20, 2012, Obama nominated Jackson to serve as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by retiring judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. [38] Republican U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, a relative by marriage, introduced Jackson at her December 2012 confirmation hearing and said, "Our politics may differ ...

  7. Trump's judicial appointments worsened racial diversity in ...

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    Only 37 of Trump's 229 active appointments are people of color - the least racially-diverse group of federal judges nominated in nearly three decades.

  8. Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court nomination - Wikipedia

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    Some Republicans criticized Biden's pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the court as hypocritical, referencing his 2005 threat to filibuster Janice Rogers Brown, [21] a conservative judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, if she was nominated to the Supreme Court. [22]

  9. List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden - Wikipedia

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    The total number of Biden Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate is 235, including one associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 45 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 187 judges for the United States district courts and two judges for the United States Court of International Trade.