On the recordApril 20, 2010
I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote to confirm the nomination of Marisa Judith Demeo as associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She has waited long enough and the Superior Court of the District has waited long enough. Judge Demeo epitomizes what it means to serve. A consummate community leader, she has always believed in the importance of public service. She is currently serving as magistrate judge in the Criminal Division of Superior Court of the District of Columbia. As an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, she has ample experience prosecuting misdemeanor and felony cases. Having said that, she also has deep roots in the community, a woman who cares about justice--about doing what's fair and what's right. She believes in the rule of law. From her work at the AIDS Service Center of Lower Manhattan, her service for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, her time as a Texas rural legal aid and a paralegal in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, she has taken pride in acting on a spirit of community that is part of who she is--each of us working together for the betterment of all of us. I know the good work she has done at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and what that work has meant to her and to those she has served.
