The U.S. Senate confirms Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, making her the first out lesbian to serve on any federal circuit court. - NBCOUT
As a litigator, Beth Robinson had argued the case that led to the first civil union law in the country.
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Robinson 51-45 on Monday after President Joe Biden nominated her in August. The 13 federal courts of appeals, or circuit courts, are the last stop before a case would be heard before the Supreme Court. As a litigator with Langrock Sperry & Wool from 1993 to 2010, she represented LGBTQ clients in several civil rights cases and served as co-counsel in Baker v. State of Vermont, which saw the Vermont Supreme Court rule that a ban on same-sex marriage violated state law. That 1999 decision led to the Vermont Legislature passing the country’s first civil union law, a precursor to same-sex marriage, the following year.
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