Monday, July 06, 2009

Obama nominates Beverly Martin to Eleventh Circuit

President Obama has nominated District Judge Beverly Martin to fill Lanier Anderson's seat on the Eleventh Circuit. She's been a district judge in the Northern District of Georgia since 2000 and before that was the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia for three years. She has sat by designation a couple of times on the Eleventh Circuit, the most noted case being Buckley v. Haddock, the taser case in which she dissented. (She wanted the video appended to the opinion, but the Court refused. After that, someone uploaded it to YouTube). She has a sense of humor -- check out this footnote (via Law.com): "Essentially, in the spirit of an old Woody Allen joke, Southern requests more time to finish a deposition that it apparently believes has not been very helpful." Then, invoking the joke from the 1977 movie "Annie Hall," she goes on, "Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, 'Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.' The other one says, 'Yeah, I know; and such small portions.'" A Macon native, Martin graduated from Stetson University and the University of Georgia School of Law.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

A Woody Allen quoting liberal out of Georgia, I love it.

Anonymous said...

he nominated her on June 19

where have you been????

Ed Williams said...

She ain't a liberal. Go Bulldogs! Now Stanley Birch has someone to chat with.

Anonymous said...

Why is the dissent always so much better than the majority opinion? Martin is great. We need more women on the appellate bench. Men are too tough on individuals. Women are nice, soft, and most importantly, compassionate.

Anonymous said...

It's time to balance out overly-conservative judges like Carnes "the Government rubber stamp".

South Florida Lawyers said...

Can't argue with the Annie Hall reference.

Rumpole said...

we've battled.

Anonymous said...

I want some freakin hippies on the Court. And I want them young so that they will outlast the likes of Pryor et al. That Pryor looks like he is in pretty good shape and will be around a long time.