Fed. Judicial Picks: White, Male, Practitioners

Law360 reports Trump's First Judicial Nominees Not So Diverse, Report Says:

Out of President Donald J. Trump’s first 26 federal court nominees, only one was nonwhite, and six were women, and compared to his three predecessors, he made the most nominations from private practice, according to a recent Congressional Research Service report. ...

Roughly two-thirds of Trump’s nominations have been for district court judgeships, the CRS reports, the remaining portion of which have been for circuit court judgeships. This is in direct contrast to the previous Republican president, Bush, whose circuit court nominations comprised 19 of his first 26 nominations. ...

The diversity of Trump’s nominees as detailed in the report are a sharp departure from the demographic of Obama’s judicial nominees, according to a CRS report from early August. The prior report says that during Obama’s tenure, for the first time in the judiciary's history, “nontraditional judges,” or those who are white women, nonwhite women and nonwhite men, made up more than half of active U.S. district court judges. Obama was similarly the first president whose circuit court appointees were by and large “nontraditional” — 69 percent to be exact.

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