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Kai Scott
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | |
| Assumed office January 18, 2023 |
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| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | C. Darnell Jones II |
| Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas | |
| In office January 2016 – January 18, 2023 |
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Kai Niambi Scott
1970 (age 54–55) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Hampton University (BA) West Virginia University (JD) |
Kai Niambi Scott (born in 1970) is an American lawyer who works as a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before this, she was a judge for the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas from 2015 to 2023.
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Education and Early Life
Kai Scott was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1970. She went to Hampton University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991. Later, she studied law at the West Virginia University College of Law, where she received her law degree (called a Juris Doctor) in 1995.
Kai Scott's Career Journey
After finishing law school, Kai Scott began her career helping people with legal issues.
- From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers Compensation. This meant she helped lawyers and judges with research and paperwork related to people who got hurt at work.
- From 1998 to 2004, she was a trial attorney for the Defender Association of Philadelphia. In this role, she represented people in court.
- She then became an assistant federal public defender from 2004 to 2010. A public defender is a lawyer who helps people who cannot afford their own legal representation in federal cases.
- From 2010 to 2015, Scott led the trial unit for the Federal Community Defender Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Becoming a Judge
In 2015, Kai Scott was elected to be a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. This court handles many different types of cases in Philadelphia.
Federal Judicial Service
On July 12, 2022, President Joe Biden chose Kai Scott to become a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was nominated to take the place of Judge C. Darnell Jones II, who had moved to a less active role in the court.
The process for becoming a federal judge involves several steps:
- On September 7, 2022, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a meeting to discuss her nomination.
- On September 28, 2022, the committee voted 13 to 9 to approve her nomination and send it to the full Senate.
- On December 7, 2022, the United States Senate voted 52 to 42 to move forward with her nomination.
- Later that same day, the Senate confirmed her nomination with a vote of 50 to 42.
- She officially became a judge on January 18, 2023.
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