[WardFive] Fw: PRESS RELEASE: President Obama Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson for U.S. District Court Judge Following Norton's Recommendation

FYI from Mrs. Norton.

 

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                      Contact: Scott McCrary

    September 20, 2012                                                                        o: 202-225-8050

 

 

President Obama Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson for U.S. District Court Judge Following Norton's Recommendation

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke by phone with Ketanji Brown Jackson today, informing her that President Obama would nominate her to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman.  Jackson is currently Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and if confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first African American woman appointed to the district court here in 32 years, only the second to ever serve, and the only one currently on the bench.

 

"I could not be more pleased that the President has agreed to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to our federal district court," Norton said.  "Her experience in both civil and criminal matters, including sentencing, will make her a valuable addition to the court."  Jackson, a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, where she served as editor and supervising editor of the law review, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

After her clerkship, she worked for law firms in Boston and D.C., and in the Office of the Public Defender for the District of Columbia, representing indigent clients on their appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  In 2010, the President appointed her to serve on the Sentencing Commission, and the Senate confirmed her.  Given that she has already been through Senate confirmation, Norton expects Jackson will be easily confirmed for her new appointment.

 

President Obama, like President Clinton, granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend candidates for federal district court judges and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District.  The Congresswoman recommended Jackson from a number of candidates screened by her 17-person Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, a former chair of the D.C. Bar and a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

 

http://www.norton.house.gov/

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