Nusrat Chowdhury became the first Muslim to become a federal judge in the history of the United States The Senate made civil rights lawyer ...
Nusrat Chowdhury became the first Muslim to become a federal judge in the history of the United States
The Senate made civil rights lawyer Nusrat Chowdhury the first Muslim woman in U.S. history to serve as a federal judge.
After a 50-49 vote along party lines on Thursday, she will stay in that position for the rest of her life in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
The American Civil Liberties Union, where she works as the legal head of the ACLU of Illinois, has said good things about how her case turned out. Before this job, she worked at the national office of the ACLU from 2008 to 2020. For seven years, she was the deputy head of the ACLU's Racial Justice Advocacy Programme.
In a tweet, the ACLU said that she was "an outstanding civil rights attorney."
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who pushed for her nomination, said she made history as the first Bangladeshi American and the first Muslim American to serve as a federal judge.
After going to law school, Chowdhury worked as a United States District Judge in New York City.
She was also on the President's Task Force on Ensuring Public Trust in the US Justice System.
Her choice is in line with what President Joe Biden said he would do: put more emphasis on the fact that a judge can be of any race or gender.
