The U.S. Senate Friday confirmed three of President Bush’s nominees for District of Columbia judgeships.
Two were confirmed for the D.C. Court of Appeals and one was confirmed for the Superior Court of D.C. All three are women and from the District.
Anna Blackburne-Rigsby was appointed to be an associate judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals for a term of 15 years. Blackburne-Rigsby was born in Washington and raised in New York City. She graduated from Duke University and earned her law degree from Howard University School of Law in 1987. She had been an associate judge to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, appointed in 2000 by President Clinton.
Her mother, Justice Laura Blackburne, sits on the Civil Court of the City of New York.
The two women are the only mother and daughter judges on courts of general jurisdiction in the United States.
Phyllis D. Thompson was confirmed to be an associate judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals for the term of 15 years. Thompson is a partner at Covington & Burling in D.C., specializing in federally funded health and welfare programs, administrative law and Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement. She studied anthropology as an undergraduate at George Washington University in the District.
Jennifer M. Anderson was confirmed to be an associate judge of the Superior Court of D.C. for the term of 15 years. She was nominated Feb.14, 2005, replacing Steffen W. Graae.
