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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/The White House said the nominees continue fulfilling Biden's pledge to diversify the federal bench. Nearly three-quarters of his 98 federal judicial nominees have been women. A majority have been people of color.
The nominations came as the Senate confirmed two of Biden's earlier nominees, Charlotte Sweeney and Evelyn Padin, to be federal district court judges in Colorado and New Jersey, respectively.
Pan would fill a vacancy on the D.C. Circuit created by the U.S. Senate's April confirmation of Jackson to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court once Justice Stephen Breyer retires at the end of this term.
The Senate in September confirmed Pan on a 68-30 vote to become the first Asian-American woman judge on the federal district court in Washington, D.C. She was previously a D.C. Superior Court judge.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday will vote on advancing another D.C. Circuit nominee, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, whom Biden had considered for the Supreme Court nomination.