The U.S. Senate on Saturday voted to confirm New York lawyer Eunice Lee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where she will become the only former federal public defender among the court's 10 active judges (article available here).
Lee, who joins the court from the Federal Defenders of New York where she has served as an assistant defender since 2019, is only the second Black female to sit on the court.
Two other second circuit nominees are awaiting confirmation in the Senate: Myrna Pérez, a voting rights advocate at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and Beth Robinson, a justice on the Vermont Supreme Court who would become the first openly-gay female judge on a federal appeals bench.