Loretta Copeland Biggs
Loretta Copeland Biggs | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina | |
| Assumed office December 31, 2024 | |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina | |
| In office December 19, 2014 – December 31, 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | James A. Beaty Jr. |
| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals | |
| In office February 1, 2001 – December 31, 2002 | |
| Appointed by | Jim Hunt |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Sanford L. Steelman Jr. |
| Judge of the 21st Judicial District Court of North Carolina | |
| In office 1987–1994 | |
| Appointed by | James G. Martin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Loretta Yvonne Copeland March 6, 1954 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Spelman College (BA) Howard University (JD) |
Loretta Yvonne Copeland Biggs (born March 6, 1954) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Biography
Biggs was born on March 6, 1954, in
Sanford Steelman, Jr. Biggs then entered private practice with the firm of Davis, Harwell & Biggs, where she was managing partner. In 2014 she moved to the Winston-Salem firm of Allman, Spry, Davis, Leggett & Crumpler, P.A. where she worked until confirmation of her judicial appointment.[3][4][5]
Federal judicial service
On September 18, 2014, President
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Copeland's nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Copeland in a voice vote. She received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014. She assumed senior status on December 31, 2024.[5] Biggs is the first black woman to serve on a federal district court in North Carolina.[citation needed
]
See also
- List of African-American federal judges
- List of African-American jurists
References
- ^ "Judge Loretta C. Biggs Lawyer Profile on Martindale.com". www.martindale.com.
- National Archives.
- ^ "Former law firm of Loretta Biggs". www.allmanspry.com.
- ^ "web.archive.org". Archived from the original on 2014-09-24.
- ^ a b Loretta Copeland Biggs at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ "Judicial Nominations – United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
- National Archives.
- ^ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov. 13 November 2014.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 11, 2014" (PDF).
External links
- Loretta Copeland Biggs at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- Loretta Copeland Biggs at Ballotpedia
- Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
