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Under the leadership of Majority Leader Schumer, this Senate Democratic majority has prioritized the confirmation of President Biden’s judicial nominees, helping to make history and balance the federal courts by confirming hundreds of diverse and well-qualified nominees. At the end of three years in office, Senate Democrats with President Biden have confirmed 166 judges to the federal bench including 110 new judges who are people of color, and 108 new judges who are women, ending this year having confirmed nearly twice as many women and three times as many judges of color as in President Trump’s full term. These well-qualified and historically diverse judges are helping to reshape the federal judiciary, and adding a new breadth of experience to the bench. From the most public defenders confirmed to appeals courts in history, to historic firsts like the first Muslim American man and woman confirmed to the federal judiciary, and the confirmation of more Black women to Circuit Court judgeships than all previous presidents combined, these judges are helping our legal system to better reflect America.

The well-qualified and diverse judicial nominees confirmed by this Senate are breaking barriers and making our courts more reflective of America. Of these 166 judicial nominees:

• 110/166 judicial nominees confirmed by this Senate are people of color
• 108/166 judicial nominees confirmed by this Senate are women
• 53/166 judicial nominees confirmed by this Senate are Black
• 33/166 judicial nominees confirmed by this Senate are Black women
• 32/166 judicial nominees confirmed by this Senate are Hispanic

In comparison to other presidents’ entire terms:

• This Senate has confirmed more women of color to the bench than any other president’s full time in office.
• This Senate has confirmed more women to judgeships than any Republican president’s full time in office.

This Senate has confirmed more people of color to Circuit Court judgeships than any other president’s full time in office.

• This Senate has confirmed more Hispanic, Asian and Native women to the federal bench than under any other president’s full time in office.
• This Senate has confirmed more public defenders to Circuit Court judgeships than under any president’s full time in office.

These historic judges confirmed to the federal judiciary include:

• Two thirds women and people of color
• The first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court
• The first Muslim American man and woman on the federal bench
• The first out lesbian to serve on any federal circuit court
• The first Navajo federal judge
• Half (4/8) of all Native judges ever confirmed

These judges are helping to expand the depth of experience on the federal bench. From Myrna Perez, formerly the director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, to the Innocence Project’s former senior litigation counsel, Nina Morrison, and Julie Rikelman, the attorney who defended the Mississippi clinic in the Dobbs case that ultimately overturned Roe, these judges are adding important, previously underrepresented perspectives to the federal bench.

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