Black judge

Many times things are considered racial when they are in fact political. In 2003 George Bush nominated Janice Brown a Black woman to the Court of Appeals for the DC circuit court which is considered a stepping stone to the supreme court. Her nomination was held up for two years by liberals who saw her as too conservative. She was re-nominated in 2005 and confirmed and was seen as a replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor. She had such a difficult time with the Appeals Court nomination that she was by passed as it was apparent that she did not stand a chance. She would have been the first Black woman on the court. Her father was a WW 2 vet who sharecropped and then reenlisted. Her parents separated and she was raised by her grandmother until she was a teenager and went to live with her mother. She earned her JD from California State University and a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law.