When was Janice Rogers Brown nominated to the Supreme Court? Who nominated Janice Rogers Brown?

Janice Rogers Brown was a federal judge on the District of Columbia Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2005 after President George W. Bush nominated her. On August 31, 2017, Judge Brown stepped down from the federal bench.

Brown was included in a list of 18 possible Supreme Court nominees released by Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate for 2020.

Brown’s appointment to the Court of Appeals was confirmed by a vote of 56–43 on June 8, 2005, after Senate centrists “struck an agreement promising not to filibuster judicial candidates except in ‘exceptional’ circumstances.” On June 10th, she was awarded a commission.

Her nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by George W. Bush in 2003 was met with opposition from civil rights organizations and was stalled for over two years by Democratic senators who viewed her as an extreme “conservative judicial activist.”

In 2005, she was re-nominated and confirmed as a member of the Senate. After Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement the following month, Brown was considered as a possible replacement. She was not nominated in the end.