University of Georgia Law School alumna Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves has been nominated for a vacancy on the Philadelphia-based US appeals court.
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Montgomery-Reeves for the US Court of Appeals Wednesday, bringing the administration's number of announced federal judicial nominees to 107.
Montgomery-Reeves graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2006. She went on to serve as a law clerk to Chancellor William B. Chandler III on the Delaware Court of Chancery from 2006 to 2007. She was the first Black judge and third woman to join the Delaware Supreme Court, where she has served since 2019.