President Biden announced four new judicial nominations last week—his 36th slate of nominees. This latest wave of nominations keeps the momentum going for this administration’s historic work to strengthen the judiciary and ensure it works for—and represents—all Americans, not just a select few.
We are particularly thrilled by the nomination of Judge Eumi K. Lee, to the District Court for the Northern District of California, and that of Richard E. N. Federico, to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Lee has been a judge on the Superior Court of California in Alameda County since 2018; prior to that, she was a clinical professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. Lee also clerked at both the federal district and appellate level and will bring immense experience and expertise to the bench.
Like Lee, Federico will bring greatly needed professional diversity to the bench. Currently the Senior Litigator for the Federal Public Defender for the District of Kansas, he also serves as a Captain in the United States Navy Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
We are also excited to note that the nomination of Judge Jeffrey Bryan, who’s been a judge on Minnesota state courts since 2013, to the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota means that court will have a Hispanic judge for the first time in its history.
