Nina Pillard
| Nina Pillard | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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Assumed office December 17, 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Douglas Ginsburg |
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Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard March 4, 1961 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education |
Yale University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Cornelia Thayer Livingston "Nina" Pillard (US 
i/ˈniːnɑː ˈpɪ.lərd/, born March 4, 1961) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before becoming a judge, Pillard was a tenured law professor at Georgetown University. She also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Assistant to the Solicitor General. At the time of her confirmation to the federal bench, she was among the most accomplished Supreme Court advocates in the United States, having argued nine cases and briefed more than twenty-five before the Court.
Pillard's nomination to the D.C. Circuit, along with the nominations of Robert L. Wilkins and Patricia Ann Millett, ultimately became central to the debate over the use of the filibuster in the United States Senate, leading to the controversial use of the nuclear option to bring it to the floor for a vote. She was narrowly confirmed by a vote of 51-44, with her detractors labeling her as one of the most liberal nominees to the federal bench in decades.
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