President Obama nominates Victoria Nourse to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – President Obama on Wednesday nominated Victoria Nourse to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, saying that he was proud to nominate her to serve.

“Throughout her career Victoria Nourse has shown a commitment to justice,” President Obama said. Professor Nourse is the Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University Of Wisconsin School Of Law, where she joined the faculty in 1993. She has wide-ranging interests, including criminal law, legislation, constitutional history, and the separation of powers, and has written extensively on each topic.

She received her B.A. in 1980 from Stanford University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and she earned her J.D. in 1984 from the University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law. She has been a visiting professor at Yale, NYU, and Georgetown. She was heavily involved in writing the Violence Against Women Act, acting as Special Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, under then-Senator Joe Biden.

On January 22, U.S. Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold forwarded four names to the White House for consideration to fill the vacancy on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals when Judge Terence T. Evans assumed senior status, a form of retirement for federal judges. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is a federal court with large number of districts in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

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