Elena Kagan<\/a> confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, bringing the total of women on the high court to three for the first time in history. In addition, he nominated and won confirmation of the first openly gay man to a federal judgeship.<\/p>\nOf course, many of President Obama\u2019s judicial nominees have been held up by members of Congress, whose stated goal is to obstruct the President at every turn. But they\u2019ve not stopped them all, and those who have been confirmed represent an undeniably significant shift in judicial diversity: According to Obama administration figures, \u00a0of the 90 Obama nominees who have been confirmed, 21 percent are African-American, 11 percent are Hispanic, 7 percent are Asian-American and almost half \u2014 47 percent \u2014 are women.<\/p>\n
Obama also has doubled the number of Asian-Americans sitting on the federal bench. There currently are 14 Asian-American federal judges on the 810-judge roster. In fact, President Obama has nominated as many Asian-Americans as were sitting on the bench when he was inaugurated.<\/p>\n
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