First black woman nominated to D.C. federal court in three decades

[Tx4obama]

First black woman nominated to D.C. federal court in three decades

President Barack Obama made his sixth nomination to the District’s federal trial court Thursday, tapping U.S. Sentencing Commission member Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The nomination is notable because, if confirmed, Jackson would become only the second African American woman to serve as a full judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and would be the first to be robed in more than 30 years.

It’s a stunning demographic deficiency in a city where a quarter of the population — more than 150,000 — are black women. Currently none of the district’s 15 active judges and six senior judges are black women. (Four are black men, and eight are white women.)

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Full article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mike-debonis/post/first-black-woman-nominated-to-dc-federal-court-in-three-decades/2012/09/21/8b96114e-0400-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_blog.html

[elleng]

1. Good news. About time.

I served on a jury in Federal court in DC, before an African American judge, great guy, rather elderly but SHARP! Passed on, last year.

[jberryhill]

2. Yeah, maybe the Senate might confirm her some century

She can now join the line of appointees in limbo.

Hey, HARRY, let's fill some freakin benches and desks this term, eh?