Norton Congratulates Jackson & Boasberg, Her Recommendations for Federal Judgeships (6/17/2010)

Norton Congratulates Jackson and Boasberg, Her Recommendations for Federal Judgeships Announced by the President Today

June 17, 2010

Washington, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke with Amy Berman Jackson and Judge James "Jeb" E. Boasberg after the White House informed her that the President will nominate Jackson and Judge Boasberg, whom she recommended, to be judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. President Obama, like President Clinton, granted the Congresswoman senatorial courtesy to recommend federal district court judges, the U.S. Attorney and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District. She recommended Jackson and Judge Boasberg from a number of candidates screened by her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, a former chair of the D.C. Bar and a partner at the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

"Amy Berman Jackson has had an extraordinary career as a criminal and civil trial attorney," Norton said. "There are few lawyers as well-qualified to assume the federal bench as Jackson."

Jackson, a Member at the D.C. litigation law firm Trout Cacheris PLLC, graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, both cum laude, clerked for Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, where she was one of the first women to try first-degree murder cases. Jackson has had more than 50 jury trials, and has represented clients in complex civil and white collar criminal cases, including securities class actions, mass torts, health care fraud, government contracts and antitrust.

Judge Boasberg, a native Washingtonian, has been an Associate Judge on the D.C. Superior Court since 2002. He graduated from Yale College magna cum laude, where he played varsity basketball for four years, from Oxford University with a M.St. (Modern European History) and from Yale Law School; clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he had more than 40 felony jury trials; and worked in private practice.

Judge Boasberg gives the federal bench a native son, who is also a particularly outstanding lawyer and judge. Judge Boasberg's exceptional record and experience on the bench with District of Columbia law will make him an invaluable addition to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.