Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: Biden deserves kudos for diverse judges. But White men still dominate.
Despite Biden’s record, the federal bench as a whole remains appallingly low on diversity. Afound, for example, “Of the 1,088 sitting judges on federal district courts, there were 48 Black women as of July 1, 2022. That’s just 4.4% of all the district court judges. California had six Black female judges in district court, while Illinois and New York each had four.” In 27 states, there is not a single Black woman on the federal bench. It’s worse at the circuit court level, where only 3.
One takeaway from these statistics: Diversity is one of many good reasons to expand the federal bench. As
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