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Edith Clement
United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Tenure
2018 - Present
Years in position
7
Prior offices:
United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Years in office: 2001 - 2018
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Years in office: 1991 - 2001
Successor:Lance Africk (Nonpartisan)
Education
Bachelor's
University of Alabama, 1969
Law
Tulane University Law School, 1972
Personal
Birthplace
Birmingham, AL


Edith Brown Clement is afederal judge onsenior status on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She joined the court in 2001 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush. She assumed senior status on May 14, 2018.[1]

Early life and education

Clement graduated from the University of Alabama with her bachelor's degree in 1969 and from Tulane University Law School with herJ.D. in 1972.[1]

Professional career

Judicial nominations and appointments

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

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Nominee Information
Name: Edith Brown Clement
Court:United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
Progress
Confirmed 188 days after nomination.
ApprovedANominated: May 9, 2001
ApprovedAABA Rating:Substantial Majority Well Qualified, Minority Qualified (with one abstention)
Questionnaire:
ApprovedAHearing: October 4, 2001
Hearing Transcript:Hearing Transcript
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ApprovedAReported: November 1, 2001 
ApprovedAConfirmed: November 13, 2001
ApprovedAVote: 99-0
DefeatedAReturned: August 3, 2001

Clement was nominated to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit by PresidentGeorge W. Bush on September 4, 2001, to a seat vacated by JudgeJohn Duhe. TheAmerican Bar Association rated ClementSubstantial Majority Well Qualified, Minority Qualified with one committee member abstaining.[2] Under Rule XXXI, paragraph six of the standing rules of the U.S. Senate, Clement's nomination was returned to the president on August 3, 2001. President Bush resubmitted Clement's nomination on September 4, 2001. Hearings on Clement's nomination were held before theUnited States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on October 4, 2001, and her nomination was reported by U.S. Sen.Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on November 1, 2001. Clement was confirmed on a recorded 99-0 vote of theU.S. Senate on November 13, 2001, and she received her commission on November 26, 2001. She assumed senior status on May 14, 2018.[1][3][4]

Eastern District of Louisiana

Clement was nominated to theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush on October 1, 1991, to a seat vacated by JudgeCharles Schwartz, Jr. TheAmerican Bar Association rated ClementUnanimously Qualified for the nomination.[5] Hearings on Clement's nomination were held before theSenate Judiciary Committee on November 14, 1991, and her nomination was reported by then-U.S. Sen.Joseph Biden (D-Del.) on November 21, 1991. Clement was confirmed by the unanimous consent of theUnited States Senate on November 21, 1991, and she received her commission on November 25, 1991. Clement briefly served as thechief judge of the court in 2001 before resigning from the district court on November 27, 2001, upon her elevation to theFifth Circuit Court of Appeals.[1][6] Clement was succeeded in this position by JudgeLance Africk.

Noteworthy cases

Parents permitted to intervene in school voucher desegregation suit (2014)

See also:United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (Brumfield, et al v. Dodd, 13-31262)

On April 10, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit composed of Judges Clement,Grady Jolly, andJerry Smith, ruled that parents would be permitted to intervene in a suit filed against Louisiana's Superintendent of Public Education by the Department of Justice to ensure its school-voucher program was in compliance with federal desegregation orders.[7]

In the underlying case, the U.S. government filed suit for an injunction, demanding that the state's voucher program not be used to send students in failing schools under federal desegregation orders to private schools as doing so would "cause irreparable injury to the court-ordered desegregation process." The parents were previously denied the opportunity to intervene, but Judge Smith, writing for the majority, noted that the children's guardians need only show thepossibility that their interests would be affected by the case's resolution.[7] In concluding the ruling, Smith quipped:

“It would indeed be a questionable rule that would require prospective intervenors to wait on the sidelines until after a court has already decided enough issues contrary to their interests.[7][8]”

See also

External links


Footnotes

  1. ↑1.01.11.21.31.4Federal Judicial Center, "Clement, Edith Brown," accessed July 30, 2018
  2. ↑American Bar Association, "Ratings of Article III judicial nominees, 107th Congress," accessed September 12, 2016
  3. ↑United States Congress, "PN 396 — Edith Brown Clement — The Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2016
  4. ↑United States Congress, "PN 396 — Edith Brown Clement — The Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2016
  5. ↑American Bar Association, "Ratings of Article III judicial nominees, 102nd Congress," accessed September 12, 2016
  6. ↑United States Congress, "PN 665 — Edith Brown Clement — The Judiciary," accessed September 12, 2016
  7. ↑7.07.17.2Courthouse News Service, "Parents May Intervene in School Voucher Fracas," April 14, 2014
  8. ↑Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
Political offices
Preceded by:
Charles Schwartz		Eastern District of Louisiana
1991–2001
Seat #2		Succeeded by:
Lance Africk
Preceded by:
John Duhe		Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
2001–2018		Succeeded by:
Kurt Engelhardt



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Federal judges who have served theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Active judges

Chief Judge: Jennifer Elrod  •  Don Willett  •  James Graves  •  Carl Stewart  •  Edith Jones  •  Leslie Southwick  •  Priscilla Richman  •  Catharina Haynes  •  Jerry Edwin Smith (Fifth Circuit)  •  Kurt Engelhardt  •  Irma Ramirez  •  Stephen Higginson  •  Cory Wilson  •  Stuart Kyle Duncan  •  James Ho  •  Andrew Oldham  •  Dana Douglas

Senior judges

James Dennis  •  Carolyn King  •  Patrick Higginbotham  •  John Duhe  •  Edith Clement  •  Fortunato Benavides  •  Jacques Wiener  •  W. Eugene Davis  •  Grady Jolly  •  Rhesa Barksdale  •  

Former judgesJohn Minor Wisdom  •  Edward Harris  •  Peter Fay  •  John Godbold  •  Robert Lanier Anderson  •  Phyllis Kravitch  •  Gerald Tjoflat  •  Joseph Hatchett  •  Albert Henderson  •  Paul Roney  •  David Dyer  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Thomas Clark (Eleventh Circuit)  •  Richard Rives  •  Robert Vance  •  Lewis Morgan  •  James Hill (Federal judge)  •  Andrew Phelps McCormick  •  Don Albert Pardee  •  Thomas Reavley  •  Harold DeMoss  •  Edward Prado  •  Robert Madden Hill  •  Alvin Rubin  •  Henry Politz  •  Reynaldo Garza  •  Albert Tate, Jr.  •  Jerre Williams  •  Robert Parker  •  Charles Pickering  •  David Davie Shelby  •  Rufus Edward Foster  •  Robert Lynn Batts  •  Nathan Philemon Bryan  •  Edwin Ruthven Holmes  •  Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  •  Alexander Campbell King  •  Samuel Hale Sibley  •  Claude Feemster Clayton  •  Richard Wilde Walker  •  Wayne Borah  •  Louie Willard Strum  •  Irving Goldberg  •  Leon McCord  •  Warren Leroy Jones  •  Robert Ainsworth  •  Joe Ingraham  •  William Thornberry  •  George Carswell  •  Curtis Waller  •  Griffin Bell  •  John Robert Brown (Federal judge)  •  Benjamin Cameron  •  James Coleman (federal judge)  •  Thomas Gee  •  Walter Gewin  •  Samuel Johnson  •  Elmo Lee  •  John Bryan Simpson  •  Frank M. Johnson, Jr.  •  Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)  •  Robert Lee Russell (Federal judge)  •  Gregg Costa  •  
Former Chief judges

John Godbold  •  Elbert Tuttle  •  Richard Rives  •  Carl Stewart  •  Carolyn King  •  Priscilla Richman  •  Henry Politz  •  Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  •  John Robert Brown (Federal judge)  •  James Coleman (federal judge)  •  Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)  •  


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Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Active judges

Chief Judge: Wendy Vitter  •  Greg Guidry  •  Jay Zainey  •  Jane Triche-Milazzo  •  Nannette Jolivette Brown  •  Susie Morgan  •  Barry Ashe  •  Darrel Papillion  •  Brandon Long (Louisiana)

Senior judges

Sarah Vance (Louisiana)  •  Eldon Fallon  •  Mary Ann Lemmon  •  Ivan Lemelle  •  Carl Barbier  •  Lance Africk  •  

Magistrate judgesKaren Wells Roby  •  Michael B. North  •  Janis van Meerveld  •  Donna Phillips Currault  •  
Former Article III judges

Thomas Porteous  •  John Dick  •  Thomas Bolling Robertson  •  Samuel Hadden Harper  •  Philip Kissick Lawrence  •  Theodore Howard McCaleb  •  Edward Henry Durell  •  Edward Coke Billings  •  Edith Clement  •  Alvin Rubin  •  Charles Parlange  •  Rufus Edward Foster  •  Eugene Davis Saunders  •  Helen Berrigan  •  Martin Feldman  •  Frederick Heebe  •  A.J. McNamara  •  Kurt Engelhardt  •  Charles Schwartz  •  Peter Beer  •  Marcel Livaudais  •  Charlton Reid Beattie  •  Wayne Borah  •  Louis Henry Burns  •  Robert Ainsworth  •  George Arceneaux  •  Edward Boyle  •  Adrian Caillouet  •  Patrick Carr (Louisiana)  •  Fred Cassibry  •  Herbert Christenberry  •  Robert Collins  •  James Comiskey  •  Adrian Duplantier  •  Frank Ellis  •  Jack M. Gordon  •  Okla Jones  •  Henry Mentz  •  Lansing Mitchell  •  Morey Sear  •  Elmer West  •  Roger West (Louisiana)  •  Veronica Wicker  •  James Wright (Louisiana)  •  

Former Chief judges

Edith Clement  •  Helen Berrigan  •  Sarah Vance (Louisiana)  •  Frederick Heebe  •  A.J. McNamara  •  Herbert Christenberry  •  Morey Sear  •  Elmer West  •  Nannette Jolivette Brown  •  


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1989

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1990

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1991

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1992

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2001

Armijo •Bates •Beistline •Blackburn •Bowdre •Bunning •Bury •Caldwell •Camp •Cassell •Cebull •Clement •Clifton •Crane •Eagan •Engelhardt •Friot •Gibbons •Granade •Gregory •Gritzner •Haddon •Hartz •Heaton •Hicks •Howard •Johnson •Jorgenson •Krieger •Land •Leon •Mahan •Martinez •Martone •McConnell •Melloy •Mills •O'Brien •Parker •Payne •Prost •Reeves •Riley •Robinson •Rogers •Royal •Shedd •B. Smith •L. Smith •Walton •Wooten •Zainey

2002

Africk •Anderson •Autrey •Baylson •Cercone •Chesler •Clark •Collyer •Conner •Conti •Corrigan •Davis •Davis •Dorr •England •Ericksen •Fuller •Gardner •Godbey •Griesbach •Hanen •Hovland •Hudson •Jones •Jordan •Kinkeade •Klausner •Kugler •Leighton •Linares •Moses •Marra •Martinez •Martini •Mays •McVerry •Phillips •Raggi •Reade •Rose •Rufe •Savage •Schwab •Smith •St. Eve •Walter •White •Wolfson

2003

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2004

Alvarez •Benton •Boyko •Covington •Diamond •Harwell •Kelley •Schiavelli •Schneider •Starrett •Watson

2005

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2006

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2007

Anderson •Aycock •Bailey •Bryant •Davis •DeGiusti •Dow •Elrod •Fairbank •Fischer •Frizzell •Gutierrez •Hall •Hardiman •Haynes •Howard •Jarvey •Jones •Jonker •Kapala •Kays •Laplante •Limbaugh •Lioi •Livingston •Maloney •Mauskopf •Mendez •Miller •Neff •O'Connor •O'Grady •O'Neill •Osteen •Ozerden •Reidinger •Sammartino •Schroeder •Settle •Smith •Snow •Southwick •Suddaby •Sullivan •Thapar •Tinder •Van Bokkelen •Wood •Wright •Wu

2008

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