South Carolina State Trial Judge Confirmed to Fourth Circuit

South Carolina state court judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin was confirmed in bipartisan fashion to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

The Senate voted 53-44 on Thursday to confirm Benjamin, who will be the second woman of color to serve on the Richmond, Va.-based court. She’s the first of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees to be confirmed in the new Congress.

Benjamin, who was born in 1972 in Columbia, South Carolina, graduated from Winthrop University and the University of South Carolina School of Law. She has spent her entire legal career in the state, including as a prosecutor ...