One of President Joe Biden’s newly announced judicial nominees could become the first Hispanic judge on the Chicago-based appeals court.
Biden announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate Judge Nancy L. Maldonado for the vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which is hearing appeals from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
Among them is 48-year-old Maldonado five new judicial candidates was named by Biden in his announcement.
He is currently a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Biden was previously a candidate he was appointed in April 2022, and he was confirmed by the Democratic-led Senate in July by a vote of 53-41.
Prior to that, Maldonado spent nearly two decades at the Chicago-based law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland, PC, starting as a partner and later becoming a partner.
From 2001 to 2003, Maldonado clerked for Judge Rubén Castillo in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2001 and Harvard University in 1997.
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., applauded Maldonado’s nomination. joint statement Wednesday.
“We are pleased that President Biden has appointed Judge Nancy Maldonado to serve as United States District Judge for the Seventh Circuit,” the statement said, adding that Maldonado “has the qualities, integrity and judgment to provide distinguished service.”
The nominations of Maldonado and his other judicial nominees must be reviewed by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Durbin before being voted on by the Senate.
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