Beth Robinson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be a U.S. circuit judge for the Second Circui, on Sept. 14, 2021. Image via committee video
The Senate on Monday confirmed two more of President Joe Biden’s picks for appeals courts, one of which flipped the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s judges to a majority of active Democratic appointees.
The Senate confirmed Beth Robinson, an associate justice on the Vermont Supreme Court and Biden’s third judge on the Second Circuit, on a 51-45 vote. She is the first openly LGBTQ+ woman to sit on a federal appeals court. Her appointment to that court follows those of Eunice Lee, a former public defender, and longtime voting rights advocate Myrna Pérez.
