D.C. Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton earlier this month named longtime D.C. LGBTQ rights advocate and Ward 8 community leader Phil Pannell to a commission that will help Norton recommend to President Joe Biden the nomination of federal judges and other federal law enforcement officials in D.C.
Pannell will serve as one of 14 members of the Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission that Norton created to help her make recommendations to Biden on who he should nominate as judges for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia and for the positions of U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshall for D.C. “President Biden, like Presidents Clinton and Obama, granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend candidates for federal