President Biden on Wednesday nominated Judge Doris L. Pryor for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
If confirmed, Judge Pryor would be the first judge of color from Indiana to ever serve on the Seventh Circuit according to a White House statement.
Pryor received her J.D. from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in 2003.
She was appointed U.S. magistrate judge for the Southern District of Indiana in 2018.
Pryor has served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Lavenski Smith in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Judge J. Leon Holmes in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. She has also served as a deputy public defender for the Arkansas Public Defender's Commission, an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana and as national security chief for the office.
According to the White House, Pryor’s nomination is part of Biden’s 18th round of federal judicial position nominees and fifth slate of nominations in 2022.
As of Wednesday, 98 federal judicial nominees have been announced.
The appointment, tenure and payment of Supreme Court justices, and federal circuit and district judges, are governed by Article III of the U.S. Constitution. These judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
