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Landrieu Candidate For Fed. District Judge Wins Presidential Nomination
– United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., announced today that President Obama has nominated New Orleans City Attorney Nannette Jolivette-Brown to be a U.S. District Judge in New Orleans. If confirmed by the Senate, Jolivette-Brown would become the first African-American woman to serve on the U.S. District bench in Louisiana.
Sen. Landrieu recommended Jolivette-Brown for the position in a November 2, 2010 letter to the President. In the letter, Senator Landrieu wrote, “Attorney Jolivette-Brown possesses an outstanding working knowledge of the federal courts and is an authority on matters related to Environmental Law.”
Sen. Landrieu noted in the letter that “Attorney Jolivette-Brown emerged from a very humble background to be one of only a very few African-Americans to hold leadership positions in the New Orleans Federal Bar association.” The Senator added that Jolivette-Brown “appears to have a very even disposition that is perfectly suited to become a model judge of whom we all can be proud.”
To read the letter, please visit: http://landrieu.senate.gov/mediacenter/upload/02032011jolivette-brownletter.pdf.
In response to the Presidential nomination, Sen. Landrieu said, “I can think of no one more eminently qualified than Nannette Jolivette-Brown to serve on the federal bench. I am very pleased the President recognizes her legal talent and even temperament, qualities that will serve her well as a federal judge. I have every confidence that the Senate will vote to confirm her.”
If confirmed, Jolivette-Brown will replace U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval, who took Senior Status in December, 2008.
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