Jane Branstetter Stranch

U.S. Circuit Judge, Sixth Circuit
Nominated: August 6, 2009
ABA Rating: Majority Qualified, Minority Well Qualified
Committee Questionnaire
Hearing Date: October 21, 2009
Questions For The Record
Reported By Committee: Nov. 19, 2009

• Committee for Justice: Obama Bias v. White Judges? - CFJ stated: "Yesterday, President Obama nominated Albert Diaz and James A. Wynn of North Carolina to the Fourth Circuit of the second highest court in the land, the United States Court of Appeals." and asked the question "Does President Obama or his advisors believe that southern white men are likely to be bigoted, making them unfit to serve on the second most powerful court in the land? We hope not and readily concede that it is difficult to know if any such stereotype lurks in the White House. The absence of southern white male circuit nominees could, instead, be an innocent coincidence or the not-so-innocent byproduct of a judicial selection process dominated by racial and gender preferences."