Irma Carrillo Ramirez testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, on May 17. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
The U.S. Senate late Monday voted 80-12 to confirm Irma Carrillo Ramirez as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Carrillo Ramirez, a longtime federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of Texas, was selected by President Joe Biden—with help from both Republican Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn—to be the president’s second nominee for the New Orleans-based appeals court. She will be the first Hispanic woman to serve on the circuit, as well as its only active Hispanic judge.
