The U.S. Senate has voted 49-47 to confirm Nancy Gbana Abudu, Deputy Legal Director and Director for Strategic Litigation for the Southern Poverty Law Center, to serve as a judge on the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Eleventh Circuit hears cases from the U.S. Northern District of Georgia, which includes Clayton County and northern Georgia, as well as other districts in Alabama and Florida. She is the first Black woman to serve on the Eleventh U.S. Circuit.
A graduate of Columbia University and Tulane Law School, Abudu worked for the American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project from 2005 to 2013 and was the ACLU of Florida’s legal director from 2013 to 2018. Prior to her time with the ACLU, Abudu was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1999 to 2001.
From 2002 to 2004, Abudu was a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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