Metro Atlanta’s African-American bar associations have expressed dismay to President Barack Obama that a list of proposed candidates to fill six federal judgeships here includes just a single African-American.
In letters to the president, the groups have asked Obama to resurrect his nomination of U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Walker, an African-American who had the support of Georgia’s two Republican U.S. senators before her 2011 nomination to serve on Atlanta’s district court was withdrawn by the White House when it expired in December 2012.
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