[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 49 (Thursday, March 16, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                   Nomination of Jessica G. L. Clarke

  Madam President, on the Clarke nomination today, the Senate will 
confirm a highly qualified judicial nominee from New York, whom I was 
very proud to recommend, Jessica Clarke, to serve as a U.S. district 
judge for the Southern District of New York.
  Ms. Clarke had all the opportunities in the world to enter private 
practice in New York, but instead she chose the path of public service. 
She has worked in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and 
the New York attorney general's Civil Rights Bureau. She is a great 
civil rights lawyer, and I am certain she will make an excellent member 
of the Federal bench.
  It would have been difficult to imagine someone like Ms. Clarke being 
nominated to the Federal bench a generation ago, but because of her 
talent and her dedication to the rule of law, she is rightfully taking 
her place on the bench today. Our courts will be better for it. I look 
forward to supporting her confirmation and urge my colleagues to vote 
in her favor.