Senate Confirms Natn’s First Openly-Gay Feral Appellate Judge - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
• DEBORAH BATTS, THE NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE, DI AT 72
• 1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72
• SENATE CONFIRMS NATN’S FIRST OPENLY-GAY FERAL APPELLATE JUDGE
• SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH

DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED

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She was sworn on June 23, 1994, durg Gay Pri Week by Print Bill Clton. Only 14 out of 870 feral judghips are held by openly gay or lbian judg (cludg Robson), add, and there has never been an openly bisexual or transgenr judicial nomee.

DEBORAH BATTS, THE NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE, DI AT 72

District Judge Julian Abele Cook 's a member of the Gay and Lbian Bar Associatn and has done pro bono for Lambda Legal, a nonprof LGBT legal aid group.

Tmp put up gay nservative Patrick Bumatay for the 9th Circu San Francis 2018.

1ST OPENLY GAY FERAL JUDGE AD AT 72

Currently there is only one openly gay feral appeals urt judge the U. Deborah Batts, the natn’s first openly gay member of the feral judiciary, has died. Febary 3, 2020, 4:14 PMThe first openly gay judge appoted to a U.

A judge also tossed a lawsu agast Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by crics, which prohibs “classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty” krgarten through eighth gra, “or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

Court of Appeals for the Feral Circu, makg him the first openly-gay person to serve as a feral appellate judge. “As an openly gay man tak to the feral appellate urt bench for the very first time, barriers to achievement for the next generatn of LGBT young people are cmblg every day. Hugh be the eighth openly-gay feral judge wh a lifetime appotment to the bench, cludg seven feral district urt judg who were nomated by Print Obama: Nza I.

SENATE CONFIRMS NATN’S FIRST OPENLY-GAY FERAL APPELLATE JUDGE

The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri's largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. Slowly but surely, the feral judiciary is beg more Tuday, lawmakers nfirmed two openly gay, black judicial nome, brgg the total number of openly gay feral judg past the double-dig mark. There are currently 10 openly gay judg stg on the feral bench, all of whom were appoted by Print a unanimo vote of 97-0, the U.

SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH

Gayl the first openly gay, black male to serve as a feral jurist.

”Correctn: A prev versn of this story reported that there were 11 openly gay judg on the feral bench.