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"This trailblazing slate of nominees draws from the very best
and brightest minds of the American legal profession," Biden
said in a statement that emphasized their "broad diversity of
background experience and perspective."
The nominees, which include nine women, must be confirmed by the
U.S. Senate.
The Black women nominated for federal circuit court vacancies
include Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Tiffany Cunningham
for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and
Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit.
Zahid N. Quraishi, a New Jersey magistrate judge, would be the
nation’s first Muslim American to serve on a federal district
court.
Judge Florence Pan would be the first Asian-American judge to
serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,
the White House said in a statement.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Lisa Lambert)
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