The U.S. Senate confirmed Perkins Coie patent litigator Tiffany Cunningham to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday by a 63-33 vote, making her the first Black judge in the patent-focused court's history.
from the Senate's Judiciary Committee, although she received six "no" votes from Republicans when the committee advanced her nomination in June and 33 in Monday's final confirmation vote.
The Federal Circuit is the only appellate court that hears patent cases. They make up over half of the court's docket, but it also has nationwide jurisdiction over fields including international trade, government contracts, and trademark law. "I recall when I was fortunate enough to clerk for the court in 2001 and 2002, one of the first days walking around and seeing the pictures of the judges on the walls," Cunningham said. "And I saw a court that had fine, fine jurists, but was very homogeneous."
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