Norton to Attend Investiture of Judge Randolph Moss, Norton Recommendation for U.S. District Court, Today

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend the investiture ceremony of Judge Randolph Moss to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, today at 4:30 p.m. at 333 Constitution Avenue NW. Norton recommended Moss to President Obama, and he was confirmed by the Senate in November. Moss, a graduate of Yale Law School and an editor of the law review, served in the Clinton administration as an Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, and was the chair of the Regulatory and Government Affairs Department at law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

"Our district court is particularly fortunate to be getting another outstanding judge in Randolph Moss, who is uniquely well-suited for our district court here in the District of Columbia," Norton said. "As a litigator, he demonstrated excellence in every facet of his work. I look forward to seeing him continue that legacy as a district court judge."

President Obama, like President Clinton, granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend candidates for federal district court judges and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District. The Congresswoman recommended Moss from a number of highly-qualified candidates screened by her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, a special counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP and a former president of the D.C. Bar. Norton expressed her appreciation to the nominating commission members, who include: Jon Bouker, Katherine Broderick, Francis D. Carter, Emilio W. Cividanes, Thomas R. Donahue, Terence C. Golden, Shirley Higuchi, Dr. Charles Matthew Hudson, Jr., Marie Johns, Emma Coleman Jordan, Johnnie Scott Rice, Daniel Solomon, Carrie L. Thornhill, Sylvia Trujillo, and Judith Winston. President Obama has nominated and the Senate has confirmed all nine of Norton's other recommendations for district court judges – Ketanji Brown Jackson, Amy Berman Jackson, James E. Boasberg, Rudolph Contreras, Beryl A. Howell, Casey Cooper, Tanya Chutkan, Amit Mehta, and Robert Wilkins, who was the first of Norton's recommendations to President Obama for a vacancy on the district court. He is her first judicial recommendation to be promoted to the U.S. Court of Appeals.