Political Quotes

“I rise today, along with my colleague from Georgia, Senator Isakson, to commend to this body the confirmation of two judges who have been nominated by President Obama for the Northern District of Georgia. First of all, Amy Totenberg is an Atlanta lawyer who certainly has the academic credentials that have prepared her well--a graduate of both Radcliffe College and Harvard and also Harvard Law School. She began law practice in Atlanta in 1977 with the Law Project and then went out on her own for 20 years. During her time as a solo practitioner, she specialized in constitutional rights litigation and also became a well-known arbitrator and mediator, particularly in employment and civil rights cases. She served as a court-appointed monitor and mediator for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and has served as a special master for the U.S. District Court in Maryland on an institutional education reform case. Ms. Totenberg has a wealth of experience on that issue, having served as general counsel to the city of Atlanta's Board of Education from 1994 to 1998 and also having served as a part-time municipal court judge in Atlanta for several years. She also has been an adjunct professor at Emory University Law School.”