Judge J. Michelle Childs is being considered by President Biden for a seat on the Supreme Court. Here's a look at her background and legal experience:
What is known, at least by inference, is that her father's death had a lasting impact on her. In a speech at an alternative middle school in Orangeburg, S.C., in 2018, Judge Childs took pains to point out that"gun violence has a devastating impact on American children and teenagers."
After graduating, she returned to South Carolina and received scholarships to pursue legal and business graduate degrees at the University of South Carolina.Judge Childs is Catholic, a fact that would be unremarkable but for the fact that if she is nominated and confirmed, she would be the seventh Catholic on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"She looked crestfallen," Enslinger recalls. But the next morning when Enslinger arrived at the firm at 7:30 a.m., Childs was already there with an entirely new document for her boss to review."That's when I figured out that nobody was going to outwork Michelle Childs," Enslinger says. Pretty soon, she adds,"everybody wanted Childs to work with them." And Childs would become the firm's first Black female partner.
Childs served four years as a state trial court judge, where she would become the chief administrative judge for the criminal court and the designated judge to hear complex business matters in her county. She won special praise for clearing a backlog of criminal cases that had languished for as long as three years without going to trial.
It was during the primary that Biden, at Clyburn's urging, pledged that, if elected, he would name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court if there was a vacancy. Clyburn has been pushing hard for Childs ever since Justice Breyer announced that he would be retiring at the end of the current Supreme Court term.
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