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Obama Sets a Record for Diversity in Judicial Nominations

President Obama made history when he nominated Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. He did it again with his second nominee, Elena Kagan, raising the number of women on the nation's highest court to three. And Obama has also added judicial diversity further down the federal ladder. His administration has placed a higher percentage of ethnic minorities among his nominees into federal judgeships than any other president. So far, Obama has had 97 of his judicial nominees confirmed - compared with 322 for President George W. Bush and 372 for President Bill Clinton, who each served two terms. So far in Obama's presidency, nearly half of the confirmed nominees are women, compared with 23 percent and 29 percent in the Bush and Clinton years. Click here to read more.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity