The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed the first Black person from Indiana to serve on the federal appeals court that hears cases from her state, in a bipartisan vote helped by her state's two Republican senators deciding to throw their support behind her.
The Senate voted 60-31 to elevate U.S. Magistrate Judge Doris Pryor to the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as Democrats push forward with fulfilling President Joe Biden's pledge to diversify the federal bench.In keeping with Biden's promise during his 2020 presidential campaign to bring greater diversity to the judiciary, more than three-quarters of his confirmed judicial nominees have been women, and a majority are people of color.
"We're making sure our courts reflect the diversity of America," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said on the Senate floor, before teeing up votes in the coming days on two other Black female appellate court nominees. They are Delaware Supreme Court Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, a nominee to the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Dana Douglas, a nominee to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Pryor has served as a federal magistrate judge since 2008 after a 12-year stint as federal prosecutor and earlier working as a public defender in Arkansas. She will succeed U.S. Circuit Judge David Hamilton, who is
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