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Current role: U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia Notable professional experience: Former criminal and civil appellate attorney; former assistant federal public defender; former assistant counsel at the Sentencing Commission Tiffany Cunningham Current role: Partner at Perkins Coie LLP in Chicago Expertise: Trial and appellate counsel in complex patent and trade secret disputes Candace Jackson-Akiwumi Current role: Partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in Washington, D.C. Expertise: Complex civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense and investigations Notable professional ex...

Biden’s First Slate of Judicial Nominees Aims to Quickly Boost Diversity in Federal Courts Ann E. Marimow and Matt Viser, Washington Post, March 29, 2021 President Biden announced his first slate of judicial nominees on Tuesday, elevating U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the influential appeals court in Washington to succeed Merrick Garland as part of the largest and earliest batch of court picks by a new administration in decades. Jackson, often considered a contender to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, is among Biden’s 11 nominations that include three Black wo...

Joe BidenJoe Biden's surprising presidencyThe Hill's Morning Report - Biden, McConnell agree on vaccines, clash over infrastructureRepublican battle with MLB intensifiesMORE’s first slate of judicial nominees exemplifies diversity in more ways than one. Not only is there racial and gender diversity, there is also unprecedented professional diversity. This includes four out of the 11 nominees previously serving as public defenders. This diversity of experience, like racial and gender diversity, is worth celebrating. And part of heralding this diversity is guarding against the stigma that cur...

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U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks on the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 11, 2021. | AFP via Getty Images/MANDEL NGAN A former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas has alleged that President Joe Biden’s newly released list of judicial nominees proves that he’s letting “liberal dark money groups” control his administration.  Carrie Severino, president of the think-tank Judicial Crisis Network, which advocates for the appointment of originalist U.S. Supreme Court justices, expressed conc...