Visible minority jurists and women got top ratings for federal bench in 2019

By Cristin Schmitz ( October 30, 2019, 3:32 PM EDT) -- Jurists from visible minorities who applied for the federal benches most often earned the highest merit rating from the independent judicial advisory committees (JACs) who screened and assessed applicants for federal Justice Minister David Lametti in 2019, disclose new statistics from the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs....