Add to ORKGNearly a decade ago, then judge Sonia Sotomayer gave a speech at the U.C. Berkeley Law School and asked a simple question: “What it all will mean to have more women and people of color on the bench?” This article places Justice Sotomayer’s perceptive question in historical context by providing a demographic profile of the gender and race of federal judges confirmed to the bench from September 24, 1789 through January 13, 2011. The paper focuses principally upon federal courts of general jurisdiction, specifically, the Supreme Court, the various Courts of Appeal and the federal district courts. After presenting historical data, the article summarizes some reasons why the Executive Branch and the Senate should conscientiously cooperate to cre...
Three women now sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, and a fourth recently retired, sugges...
Although having a diverse bench is instrumental to a fair judicial system, the first Mexican America...
This Article argues that diversifying the federal judiciary with more women and men of color, but pa...
This article briefly surveys the constitutional and statutory foundation for the creation of the fed...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u27s appointment was historic. She is the first Latina Supreme Court member ...
It is well established that the federal judiciary has been an overwhelmingly White and male institut...
Since the American Association of University Women first published the associational brief Balancin...
There is an abundance of literature on how race shapes, or has the potential to shape, judicial deci...
Beginning with President Carter and continuing with each successive president, the federal bench has...
A major legacy of the Obama presidency was the mark he left on the federal courts with respect to in...
Prior scholarship on the effect of the increasing number of female judges leads to three contrasting...
Since 2009, 62 percent of President Obama’s Federal trial court judge selections have been racial an...
In the analysis which follows, an effort will be made to assess the historical record of the appoint...
In 1978, political scientist Beverly Blair Cook wrote Women Judges: The End of Tokenism for a public...
From slavery to civil rights to affirmative action, America’s history has been plagued with the issu...
Three women now sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, and a fourth recently retired, sugges...
Although having a diverse bench is instrumental to a fair judicial system, the first Mexican America...
This Article argues that diversifying the federal judiciary with more women and men of color, but pa...
This article briefly surveys the constitutional and statutory foundation for the creation of the fed...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u27s appointment was historic. She is the first Latina Supreme Court member ...
It is well established that the federal judiciary has been an overwhelmingly White and male institut...
Since the American Association of University Women first published the associational brief Balancin...
There is an abundance of literature on how race shapes, or has the potential to shape, judicial deci...
Beginning with President Carter and continuing with each successive president, the federal bench has...
A major legacy of the Obama presidency was the mark he left on the federal courts with respect to in...
Prior scholarship on the effect of the increasing number of female judges leads to three contrasting...
Since 2009, 62 percent of President Obama’s Federal trial court judge selections have been racial an...
In the analysis which follows, an effort will be made to assess the historical record of the appoint...
In 1978, political scientist Beverly Blair Cook wrote Women Judges: The End of Tokenism for a public...
From slavery to civil rights to affirmative action, America’s history has been plagued with the issu...
Three women now sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, and a fourth recently retired, sugges...
Although having a diverse bench is instrumental to a fair judicial system, the first Mexican America...
This Article argues that diversifying the federal judiciary with more women and men of color, but pa...