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This profile contains Biden Administration judicial nominations to federal courts.

Supreme Court of the United States

Ketanji Brown Jackson is a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. She had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to which President Biden also nominated her. Before that, she had served as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2013, and as vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission since 2010. From 2007 to 2010 she was of counsel at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, from 2005 to 2007 she was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C., and from 2003 to 2005 she was an assistant special counsel at the United States Sentencing Commission. Earlier in her career, she worked as an attorney at the law firms of Feinberg Rozen, LLP, Goodwin Proctor LLP, and Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer from 1999 to 2000.1 She is a member of the governing council of the American Law Institute.2 Jackson was listed on Demand Justice’s Supreme Court Shortlist.3

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Gustavo Gelpi is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He formerly served as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, having been confirmed in 2006, and before that served as a magistrate judge on the district court since 2001. Prior to that, he was an attorney at the law firm of McConnell Valdes, Solicitor General of Puerto Rico from 1999 to 2000, Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Puerto Rico Department of Justice from 1997 to 1999, special counsel to the United States Sentencing Commission in 1996, and an assistant federal public defender from 1993 to 1996.4

Julie Rikelman is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She was most recently the senior director of U.S. litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she had worked since 2011 and also from 1999-2001. While there, she argued the abortion cases of June Medical Services v. Russo and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization before the Supreme Court of the United States. Rikelman also previously held various positions at NBC Universal, Inc. from 2006 to 2011, including vice president of litigation. She was a senior associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 2004 to 2006 and an associate at Feldman & Orlansky from 2001 to 2004.56

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Eunice C. Lee is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She most recently served as an assistant federal defender at Federal Defenders of New York. Before that, she worked for the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City from 1998 to 2019, being named supervising attorney in 2001. She also taught as an adjunct assistant professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law from 2003 to 2019.7

Sarah A.L. Merriam is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She had been serving as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut since 2021, to which President Biden also nominated her. Before that, she served for more than six years as a magistrate judge for the District of Connecticut, and for eight years as an assistant federal defender. She worked on the political campaigns then-Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) from 2006 to 2007, and practiced law with the firm of Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy, LLC. Prior to law school, she worked as political director for the Connecticut Employees Union Independent/SEIU Local 511 labor union.8

Alison Nathan is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York since 2011. Before that, she was special counsel to the Solicitor General of New York from 2010 to 2011, associate White House counsel and special assistant to the president in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2010, a fellow at New York University School of Law from 2008 to 2009, a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University Law School from 2006 to 2008, and an associate at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP from 2002 to 2006. She clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens from 2001 to 2002.9

Myrna Perez is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She formerly served as director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Before that, she was a civil rights fellow at the law firm of Relman, Dane & Colfax. She has served as chair of the election law committee of the New York City Bar Association, as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, as a lecturer at Columbia Law School,10 and on the board of directors of Sojourners,11 and of Crossroads Prison Ministries.12

Beth Robinson is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She had formerly served as an associate justice on the Vermont Supreme Court since 2011. She served as counsel to then-governor of Vermont Peter Shumlin from 2010 to 2011, and was an attorney at the law firm of Langrock Sperry & Wool from 1993 to 2010, and at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1990 to 1991.13 Prior to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont in 2009, Robinson held leadership positions at several state-level LGBT advocacy groups, including the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, Vermonters for Civil Unions, and the Vermont Fund for Families.14

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Nusrat Jahan Choudhury is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She had previously served as legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois since 2020.15 Before that, she served in multiple positions at the national ACLU, including as deputy director of the group’s racial justice program and as a staff attorney in its national security project.16

Natasha C. Merle is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was most recently the deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and previously served as assistant counsel and then senior counsel at the organization from 2016 to 2021. She was a litigation associate and a NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund fellow at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP from 2013 to 2015, an assistant federal public defender from 2011 to 2012, and a staff attorney at the Gulf Region Advocacy Center from 2009 to 2011.17

Nina Morrison is a a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She formerly served as senior litigation counsel at the Innocence Project, where she had worked since 2002, including serving as executive director from 2002 to 2004. Before that, she was an attorney at the law firm of Emery, Cuti, Brinckerhoff & Abady.18

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Dale E. Ho is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He had previously served as director of the voting rights project at the American Civil Liberties Union since 2013. Before that, he was an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2009 to 2013, and worked as an attorney at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP.19 He has also worked as an adjunct clinical professor at New York University School of Law.20

Jennifer L. Rochon is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She formerly served as general counsel of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Before that, she was an associate and later partner at the law firm of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.21

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Arianna J. Freeman is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She had previously worked at the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2009, and served as managing attorney at the office’s non-capital habeas unit since 2016. She has served on the board of directors of First Person Arts and the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women.22

Adeel Mangi has been nominated to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mangi has been a partner at the law firm of Patterson Belknap & Tyler since 2010, where he began his career as an associate in 2000.23 He has been a board member at the Muslim Bar Association of New York, the Legal Aid Society of New York, Muslims for Progressive Values, and the National LGBT Bar Association, as well as an advisory board member at the Alliance of Families for Justice.24 He was also an advisory board member at the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers Law School from 1999 to 2023.25

Mangi’s professional associations made his nomination controversial. The Washington Free Beacon reported that the Legal Aid Society of New York had supported proposals to defund the police, and for the Biden Administration to stop detaining illegal immigrants.26 Questions were also raised about his advisory board position at the Center for Security, Race and Rights, which has an extensive record of anti-Israel statements and which co-hosted an event on the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks featuring an individual convicted of a terrorist financing-related offense.27 Observers also noted that one of the Alliance of Families for Justice’s founding directors was Kathy Boudin, a former member of the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground who pled guilty to felony murder charges relating to the 1981 killings of two police officers and a security guard. The Alliance of Families for Justice has since lobbied for the release of others who have been imprisoned for murdering law enforcement officers, even referring to them as “freedom fighters.”28

In March 2024, the Washington Examiner reported that Mangi had moderated a panel at the 2022 National Association of Muslim Lawyers conference, which featured the director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights and the national litigation director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sponsors of the event included CAIR and Mangi’s law firm Patterson Belknap.29 After the Hamas-led terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, the executive director of CAIR, Nihad Awad, said that he was “happy” to see the terrorists “breaking the siege,” and that “the people of Gaza have the right to self-defense, have the right to defend themselves, and yes, Israel as an occupying power does not have that right to self-defense.” The Biden Administration condemned Awad’s remarks, calling them “shocking, antisemitic statements.”30 Mangi subsequently apologized to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for not initially disclosing his involvement in the conference.31

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Michael E. Farbiarz is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Farbiarz had previously been general counsel of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey since 2016, and before that was a senior fellow at New York University School of Law from 2014 to 2016. From 2004 to 2014 he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and he was an associate at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell from 2001 to 2004.32

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Nicole Berner has been nominated to serve as judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Berner is general counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), having been an in-house counsel at the union since 2006. From 2004 to 2006 she was a staff attorney at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, from 2000 to 2004 she was an associate at the law firm of Jenner & Block, and from 1999 to 2000 she was a visiting attorney at Yigal Arnon & Co. in Jerusalem, Israel.33 She has been a board member at the National Partnership for Women and Families,34 Jobs With Justice,35 and the American Constitution Society.36

Toby Heytens is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He had previously served as Solicitor General of Virginia since 2018, and as a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from 2006 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2018. From 2007 to 2010 he served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and from 2003 to 2006 he practiced at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP. Heytens clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 2002 to 2003.37

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Matthew J. Maddox is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, where he had previously been serving as a magistrate judge since 2022. Before that, he was an assistant United States attorney for the District of Maryland from 2015 to 2022, and practiced law at the firm of Holland & Knight from 2012 to 2014.38

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Rachel Bloomekatz is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She had previously been an attorney at the law firms of Bloomekatz Law, Gupta Wessler, and Jones Day. She was an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts from 2010 to 2011 and clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer from 2011 to 2012.39 During law school, she interned at the Southern Poverty Law Center.40

Bloomekatz’s nomination was controversial and she was confirmed by a 50-48 vote in the Senate. Republican senators raised concerns about her past legal work as co-counsel and a consultant with the gun control activist group Everytown for Gun Safety. Bloomekatz’s Democratic political background also included work as an advisor to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign in Ohio, and as legal director for Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) 2012 campaign.41

Stephanie D. Davis is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She had been serving as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2019, to which she was appointed by President Trump. Before that, she was a magistrate judge for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2016 to 2019, and an assistant United States attorney and later executive assistant United States attorney from 1997 to 2016. She practiced law at the firm of Dickinson, Wright PLLC from 1992 to 1997.42

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Candace Jackson-Akiwumi is a judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She was most recently a partner at the law firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP. Before that, she worked as an attorney at the Federal Defender Program in the Northern District of Illinois from 2010 to 2020, and at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 2007 to 2010.43

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Lucy H. Koh is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She had most recently served as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California since 2010, and before that as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge from 2008 to 2010. She worked as an attorney at the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP from 2002 to 2008, and at the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from 2000 to 2002. Before that, she served at the U.S. Department of Justice as special counsel in the Office of Legislative Affairs from 1994 to 1996, special assistant to the Deputy Attorney General from 1996 to 1997, and as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1997 to 2000. From 1993 to 1994 she was a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.44 During law school, she interned at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.45

Gabriel P. Sanchez is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was formerly an associate justice on the California Court of Appeal, and before that was deputy legal affairs secretary to California governor Jerry Brown (D) and a state deputy attorney general. He practiced law at the firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson from 2006 to 2011, and received a social justice award from the ACLU of Southern California for his pro bono work.46

Jennifer Sung is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She most recently served as a member of the Oregon Employment Relations Board. Before that, she was an attorney first at the law firm of Altshuler Berzon LLP and later at McKanna Bishop Joffee LLP, practicing as a union-side labor lawyer. Earlier in her career she was a Skadden Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, and worked as an organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199 and Local 74.47

Sung’s nomination was controversial and she was confirmed by a 50-49 vote in the U.S. Senate. In particular, Republicans had expressed concern over a 2018 letter she had signed in opposition to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, which called him an “intellectually and morally bankrupt ideologue.” At her confirmation hearing, Sung apologized for creating the appearance of bias by signing the letter.48

Holly A. Thomas is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She had served as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge since 2018. Before that, she served as deputy director of executive programs at the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, as a special counsel in the New York Solicitor General’s Office, as a senior attorney in the appellate section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and as assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She has served on the board of directors of of Lambda Legal and 826LA, and on the executive committee of the Yale Law School Association.49

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Hernan D. Vera is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. He had previously served as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge since 2020. Before that, he was a principal at the law firm of Bird Marella, P.C. from 2015 to 2020. He was a directing attorney and later the president and chief executive officer of Public Counsel from 2002 to 2014. Earlier in his career, Vera was an attorney at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.50

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Araceli Martinez-Olguin is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She was previously a supervising attorney at the National Immigration Law Center since 2018, and before that was the managing attorney of the immigrants’ rights project at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, California. From 2016 to 2017 she was an attorney in the civil rights office of the U.S. Department of Education.51 She also previously worked in the national origin, immigration and language rights program at Legal Aid at Work, and held multiple positions at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), including as a staff attorney with both the ACLU’s women’s rights project and immigrants’ rights project.52

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Tana Lin is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Since 2004, she had been an attorney at the law firm of Keller Rohrback LLP. From 2001 to 2004 she was litigation coordinator at the Michigan Poverty Law Program, from 1999 to 2001 she was a senior trial attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, from 1995 to 1999 she was an attorney in the employment litigation section at the U.S. Department of Justice, and from 1991 to 1995 she was a staff attorney at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service.53 She has served as president of the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, and as an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law.54

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Veronica S. Rossman is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She had formerly served in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Colorado and Wyoming as an assistant federal public defender from 2010 to 2015, as the appellate division chief from 2015 to 2017, and as senior counsel from 2017 until her nomination. From 2008 to 2010 she was a visiting professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and from 2007 to 2008 she was a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Earlier in her career, she was an attorney at the law firms of Mastbaum and Moffat, and Morrison & Foerster, LLP.55

U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

David Herrera Urias is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. Since 2008, he had been an attorney at the law firm of Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward, P.A. From 2004 to 2008 Urias was a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and from 2002 to 2004 he worked as an attorney at the law firm of Fried, Frank, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP.56

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Nancy Gbana Abudu is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was previously the deputy legal director and director for strategic litigation at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She served as legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida from 2013 to 2018, and as senior staff counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) voting rights project from 2005 to 2013. Before that, she was a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2002 to 2004, and an attorney at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1999 to 2001.57

Some of Abudu’s past statements on voting attracted controversy after her nomination. According to The Daily Wire, in an interview given during her time at the ACLU she included photo identification and proof of citizenship requirements as examples of “voter suppression.”58 Separately, in a June 2020 article, Abudu wrote that “[o]ur current criminal justice system is one of the most inhumane examples of how racial discrimination operates and can ruin people’s lives forever,” and that adding “laws that prohibit people with a criminal conviction from voting” creates “practically the same system as during slavery – Black people who have lost their freedom and cannot vote.”59

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Sarah Geraghty is a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She is senior counsel at the Southern Center for Human Rights, and also serves as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law and a part-time instructor at Georgia State University College of Law.60

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Amir H. Ali has been nominated to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Ali has been president and executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center since 2021, and is also co-director of the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic at Harvard Law School. Before that, he was an attorney at the law firm of Jenner & Block LP from 2013 to 2017.61 He has been a board member at the Appellate Project and the Death Penalty Information Center.62

Ali’s nomination was controversial. Commentators noted that the MacArthur Justice Center had in the past supported calls to defund the police, which one individual associated with the center reportedly described as “a movement toward making police departments obsolete.”63

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Tiffany Cunningham is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Since 2014, she had been a partner at the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP, and was a member of the firm’s executive committee. From 2002 to 2014 she was an associate and later partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.64

Leonard Stark is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He had previously been serving as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware since 2010, and served as chief judge from July 2014 to June 2021. Before that, he was a magistrate judge for the District of Delaware from 2007 to 2010, and an assistant attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2007. From 1997 to 2001, he was an associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.65

 

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