President Barack Obama has renominated Atlanta litigator Jill Pryor for a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, along with 32 others whose nominations to federal judgeships had expired when the 112th Congress adjourned.
An American Bar Association committee was unanimous in giving Pryor, who graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Eleventh Circuit Judge J.L. Edmondson, a “well qualified” rating. But Georgia’s Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, stopped her nomination from proceeding.
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