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Kai Niambi Scott
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 42Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- July 12, 2022
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- September 7, 2022
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 29, 2022
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 42
- Confirmed
- December 7, 2022
- Commissioned
- January 18, 2023
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1970, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. David Poorman, Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, 1996-1998
- Assistant defender, Defender Association of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], 1998-2004
- Assistant federal defender, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2004-2015; chief, Trial Unit, 2010-2015
- Judge, Criminal Trial Division, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County [Pennsylvania], 2016-2022
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