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According to a latest report, Obama is the first President to line the judiciary primarily with women and minorities. In this tenure, more than 70% of the nominees included non-traditional citizens. Until now, 98 nominees have been confirmed. Out of these, 21 percent are African American, 11 percent at Hispanic, seven percent are Asian American and 47 percent are women.
Goldman, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has said “It is an absolutely remarkable diversity achievement.”
Out of all the elected presidents, Obama stands tall as the only president who has created cultural diversity breaking racial norms at the judicial level. This is in contrast with the administration of Bill Clinton and George Bush that had 48.1 percent and 32.9 percent non-traditional nominees for judicial posts.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has lauded the efforts of President Obama and said “All of us can be proud of President Obama for taking this critical step to break down another barrier and increase diversity in the federal judiciary.”
In the two terms of the President, there have been a couple of first-times in judicial history of America. Amongst them is the appointment of Bernice Donald. She is the first African-American woman to sit on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
For over 140 years, the nation’s federal judges did not include any females or minorities.
Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond while praising Obama’s initiative has said, “I think it’s always good to have diverse perspectives, whether it’s gender, sexuality or ideology. Obama has nominated as many as were sitting on the bench when he was inaugurated.”
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