WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday — in a history making vote — confirmed Chicago attorney Nancy Maldonado to be a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.

Biden nominated April M. Perry to serve as the first female U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois last year, but Vance–who joined the ticket led by former President Donald Trump ...

President Joe Biden marked yet another historic moment for his administration in his final days in office on Monday when the U.S. Senate confirmed his 40th Black female judge to the federal bench ...

Biden has appointed several “first” Black judges across the nation’s district courts and courts of appeals, including Tiffany Cunningham, the first Black judge to serve on the U.S. Court of ...