President Biden has sent the nomination of DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, of South Carolina, to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit to the United States Senate.
Benjamin, a Columbia native, is married to former Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin. She is a 1994 graduate of Winthrop University and is a 1977 graduate of University of South Carolina Law School. She graduated from Columbia High School in Columbia.
After graduating from law school, Benjamin was a law clerk for state Judge Casey Manning.
From 1998-1999, she was in the juvenile and family court division of the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, and, from 1999-2001, she was an assistant attorney general under Attorney General Charlie Condon. From 2001-2011, she worked in her father’s law practice, the Gist Law Firm in Columbia. She also served as a municipal judge from 2004-2011.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the nation’s 13 appellate courts and is one step below the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices usually are chosen from the nation’s appellate courts.
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