[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 24, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S2646]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                 Nomination of Stephanie Dawkins Davis

  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. President, I rise today in strong support of Judge 
Stephanie Davis, who is nominated to serve on the Sixth Circuit Court 
of Appeals.
  Judge Davis has spent her entire career in Michigan, and we are 
better for it. Judge Davis began work in the U.S. Attorney's Office in 
the Eastern District of Michigan in 1997. During her time there, she 
served in the office's civil and criminal divisions. She prosecuted 
fraud, bank robbery, embezzlement, violent crime, public corruption, 
and criminal conspiracies involving drug trafficking, as well as money 
laundering. She oversaw community and law enforcement initiatives and 
led the office's diversity efforts.
  In 2016, Judge Davis became a magistrate judge for the U.S. District 
for the Eastern District of Michigan.
  In 2019, with the strong support of both Senator Peters and myself, 
Judge Davis was nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. district 
judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. Her confirmation was 
bipartisan, and so was her support in committee for this Sixth Circuit 
nomination.
  Judge Davis has done an outstanding job every place she has been 
serving the people of Michigan, and I have no doubt that she will 
continue her strong record of public service on the U.S. court of 
appeals.
  I have had the opportunity to get to know Judge Davis, and it has 
really been a joy. She is not just an extremely accomplished jurist, 
she is also a wonderful person, and those qualities, no doubt, are 
needed more than ever these days. So it is with great confidence that I 
urge my colleagues to support this wonderful nomination.
  Mr. President, I would now ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
recess until 2:15 as is part of the schedule.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Ms. STABENOW. I yield the floor.

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