TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Nov 3, 2021

The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York, the ABA Journal reports. Her appointment marks the first openly LGBTQ woman to serve on a federal appeals court. Robinson was counsel to Vermont’s governor and a civil litigator at Langrock Sperry & Wool before she began her time on Vermont’s high court in 2011. Twenty-eight of Biden’s federal court nominees have won confirmation so far, which is the most confirmations at this point in a presidency in modern history.