US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday asked President Joe Biden to nominate three women who will serve as federal judges in New York, one of them being Nusrat Choudhury, a Bangladeshi-American.
If appointed, she who would be the second Muslim American on the bench in the country.
The others recommended to serve as federal judges in the Southern District and Eastern Districts of New York, are Jessica Clarke and Nina Morrison.
Currently, 44-years old, Nusrat Choudhury is the legal director at the ACLU of Illinois, and if cleared, she would serve as a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York, which has courthouses in Brooklyn and Central Islip.
She would also be the first Bangladeshi Muslim American to serve in the federal judiciary.
