Biden releases first wave of judicial nominees

President Joe Biden announced his first slate of judicial nominees Tuesday, tapping a diverse pool of 11 candidates for the federal bench.

Perhaps the most high-profile name on the White House’s list was Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — a potential Supreme Court pick — whom Biden nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Biden announced two other federal appeals court nominations: Tiffany Cunningham, a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, a partner at the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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