From left: Beth Robinson courtesy American Law Institute; Charlotte Sweeney courtesy Sweeney & Bechtold.Judicial nominations announced Thursday by President Joe Biden include two lesbians with long records of human rights work.Beth Robinson, the first out justice on the Vermont Supreme Court, is a nominee for the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. If confirmed by the Senate, she would be the first out lesbian to serve on any federal circuit court.
Charlotte Sweeney, a Denver-based attorney specializing in employee rights, is a nominee for the U.S. District Court for Colorado.
She would be the first out federal judge in the state and the first woman from the LGBTQ+ community to be a federal district court judge in any state west.