Loretta Copeland Biggs
Loretta Copeland Biggs | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina | |
| Assumed office December 19, 2014 | |
| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | James A. Beaty Jr. |
| Associate Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals | |
| In office January 2001 – January 2003 | |
| Appointed by | Jim Hunt |
| 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 Democratic |
| Education | Spelman College (BA) Howard University (JD) |
Loretta Yvonne Copeland Biggs (born March 6, 1954) is a
United States District Court 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.[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.
