Reuters: Biden names first 6 new judicial nominees of 2024
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on January 10, 2024.
Jasmine Yoon, a former federal prosecutor who is now the vice president of corporate integrity, ethics and investigations at the bank Capital One, was nominated to become the first Asian American judge in Virginia and was appointed to a seat in the state’s Western District.
That court and the Rhode Island one are among 25 that have never had a non-white judge, according to the progressive group Alliance for Justice.