Kai Scott | |
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Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas | |
Assumed office 2015 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Kai Niambi Scott 1970 (age 51–52) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Hampton University (BA) West Virginia University (JD) |
Kai Niambi Scott (born 1970)[1][2] is an American attorney who has served as a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas since 2015. She is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1995.[3]
From 1996 to 1998, Scott served as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers Compensation. From 1998 to 2004, she was a trial attorney for the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She served as an assistant federal public defender from 2004 to 2010. From 2010 to 2015, Scott served as the trial unit chief for the Federal Community Defender Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in 2015.[4]
On July 12, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Scott to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. President Biden nominated Scott to the seat vacated by Judge C. Darnell Jones II, who took senior status on March 15, 2021.[5] On September 7, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[6] On September 28, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 13–9 vote.[7] Her nomination is pending before the United States Senate.