She has been an appellate-level judge for that entire tenure of 14 years. She doesn’t have to be a “Federal” judge to be a judge and have an judicial record.
“She has been an appellate-level judge for that entire tenure of 14 years.”
In STATE court, not Federal court. Again, my point was and is that her lack of experience on the FEDERAL bench can give senate fence-sitters an excuse to deny her nomination. As I also stated, the lack of judicial experience is in and of itself not an impediment to affirmation, but can — and if wielded by a senate fence-sitter — will be an excuse to vote NAY on a nomination. Believe me, if Lagoa is the nominee Collins and Murkowski will cite her lack of federal experience as a justification for voting NAY.