A. William Maupin was a justice on the Nevada Supreme Court. He was elected to the court in 1996 (effective in January of 1997) and was re-elected in 2002. His term ended in January 2009. He later joined the law firm of Lionel, Sawyer & Collins.
Gustavo Antonio Gelpí Jr. (born December 11, 1965) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico . On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that he would nominate Gelpí to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit .
For the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, Biden nominated Gustavo A. Gelpí Jr. – a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, where he has served as chief judge since 2018. Gelpí was appointed by former President George W. Bush in 2006. The White House highlighted Gelpí as "the second judge of Hispanic origin to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the second judge from Puerto Rico ever to sit on the First Circuit."
Veronica Sophia Rossman is an American lawyer from Colorado who is a nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit .
Veronica S. Rossman has served as Senior Counsel to the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Colorado and Wyoming since 2017. From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Rossman served as the Appellate Division Chief of her office, and she previously worked as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Appellate Division from 2010 to 2015. Ms. Rossman was a visiting professor at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law from 2008 to 2010, and she worked as a staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2007 to 2008. From 2004 to 2005, Ms. Rossman was an attorney with the law firm of Mastbaum and Moffat.
"President Biden has made clear that the days of public defenders being systematically passed over for top jobs on the federal bench are over," said Christopher Kang, chief counsel for the progressive group Demand Justice.
President Biden has announced his intent to nominate three new Court of Appeals nominees and three new District Court nominees, who will bring deepBiden has now filled four of the six vacancies on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey, nominating Julien X. Neals, Zahid Quraishi, and Christine O’Hearn. All are awaiting confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
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For the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, Biden nominated Eunice C. Lee, an assistant federal defender with the Federal Defenders of New York. Prior to that role, Lee worked with the Office of the Appellate Defender from 1998 to 2019.
Susan J. Dlott (born September 11, 1949) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio .
President Biden has announced his intent to nominate three new Court of Appeals nominees and three new District Court nominees, who will bring deep credentials and qualifications to the federal bench, as well as career-long devotion to our Constitution and the rule of law. These individuals embody President Biden’s commitment to ensure that his judicial nominees represent not only the excellence but the diversity of our nation with respect to both personal and professional backgrounds.Many of them are groundbreaking choices, including:
- the second judge of Hispanic origin to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the second judge from Puerto Rico ever to sit on the First Circuit;
- the second African American woman ever to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who would also be the only judge with experience as a federal defender serving on that circuit;
- an immigrant who came to the United States as a small child and would be the only judge with experience as a federal defender serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit;
- only the third active Native American federal judge currently serving in the entire United States, and the first Native American federal judge in Washington State history;
- the first African American district court judge to sit in the Camden courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey;
- the second African American woman judge and the second Asian American judge to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
