Nate Raymond

(Reuters) – On Wednesday, President Joe Biden nominated three female appellate judges. They include Florence Pan who will succeed U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji brown Jackson to the powerful federal appeals court located in Washington D.C.

Pan was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit by Biden for her second nomination. Pan succeeded Jackson in 2021 as a District Court judge.

Biden nominated Rachel Bloomekatz, a public interest lawyer to the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Magistrate Judge Doris Pryor will sit on Chicago’s 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

According to the White House, the nominations will continue Biden’s promise of diversifying the federal bench. A majority of Biden’s 98 nominees for federal judicial office have been women. Most of his 98 federal judicial nominees were women.

The D.C. The Circuit, which is replete with cases regarding government decisions and regulations, is often regarded as the second most important court in the United States after the Supreme Court.

Pan will fill the vacancy left by U.S. Senate’s April confirmation Jackson. She would be the Supreme Court’s first Black woman once Justice Stephen Breyer leaves at the end.

Pan was confirmed by the Senate on September 30th on a vote of 68-30. This makes her the first Asian American woman to be a judge at Washington’s federal district court.

Thursday’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve another D.C. J. Michelle Childs is the U.S District Judge nominee for Circuit, which Biden was considering to be the Supreme Court nominee.

Pryor, who was a Black ex-prosecutor and public defense attorney, will be the 7th Circuit’s first Judge of Color from Indiana.

Bloomekatz, who had previously worked at Gupta Wessler in Washington, started a Columbus-based public interest firm. As state counsel, she was responsible for Biden’s 2020 campaign in Ohio.