Obama nominates Brandt to the DC Superior Court
March 27, 2012
Washington, D.C.: President Obama has nominated Rainey Ransom Brandt to serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She was recommended to the President by the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission in January 2012 and he made the nomination on March 21. She is nominated to fill the seat vacated when Judge Joan Zeldon retired.[1]
Brandt is currently special counsel to the Chief Judge of the DC Superior Court, Lee F. Satterfield, and also served in that position for the past two Chief Judges on the court. Prior to joining the court as counsel in 1998, Brandt taught in the Department of Justice, Law & Society at American University, from where she received her B.A., M.S., and Doctorate degrees. She is also a graduate of the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America.[2]
Brandt served on the board of the foundation of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia along with attorney William Atkins. Atkins says of her: "She has wisdom beyond her years, born of experience spent at the court seeing the practice of law and the dispensation of justice up close".[3]
The Senate Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will next review the nomination.
See also
- News: Attorneys recommended for Superior Court seat, January 28, 2012
Footnotes
- ↑ District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission "Three Persons Recommended for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Vacancy Created by the Retirement of Judge Joan Zeldon," January 25, 2012
- ↑ White House Press Release "President Obama Nominates Rainey Ransom Brandt to Serve on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia," March 21, 2012
- ↑ Blog of Legal Times "White House Nominates D.C. Superior Court Special Counsel to the Bench," March 21, 2012
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