History-making Delaware judge confirmed to join Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves was the primary Black decide to serve on Delaware’s Court docket of Chancery in 2015 and on the state Supreme Court docket in 2020. Now, the U.S. Senate has confirmed her as the latest member of the Third Circuit Court docket of Appeals.

Senators voted 53-35 to substantiate her nomination.

“The Delaware Supreme Court docket’s loss shall be our nation’s acquire,” stated U.S. Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware earlier than that vote this week. “She’ll carry a spirit of collegiality and consensus to the Third Circuit, simply as she has within the courts that she served on in Delaware. She’s not an ideologue. She’s an excellent decide.”

Earlier than she joined the Chancery Court docket as vice chancellor in 2015, Montgomery-Reeves was a accomplice in a Wilmington legislation agency centered on company governance and stockholder class motion litigation. She additionally clerked for Chancery Court docket Chancellor William Chandler.

“It has been a unprecedented honor and privilege to serve the folks of Delaware for the previous seven years,” Montgomery-Reeves wrote this week in her resignation letter to Gov. John Carney.

“I additionally am extremely lucky to have spent this time working with devoted judicial officers and employees who’re dedicated to the rule of legislation and to treating all who come earlier than them with dignity and respect. I’ve discovered a lot from them, and their service to Delaware has impressed me.”