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 partyDemocratic
EducationHampton 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.

Education

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]

Career

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.

References

  1. ^ "Biden nominates five, including former Philly DA, to federal courts in Pa". MSN. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
  2. ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  3. ^ "President Biden Names Twenty-First Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. July 12, 2022. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
  4. ^ "Kai Scott". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
  5. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. July 12, 2022.
  6. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. August 31, 2022.
  7. ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 29, 2022" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
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