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Biden Nominates Delaware Judge to Fill Upcoming CAFC Opening

President Joe Biden nominated Judge Leonard Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Stark, who served as the Delaware District's chief judge 2014 to…

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2021, would replace current Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley, who announced that she would retire next March. Stark would be the president's second appointment to the Federal Circuit, after the Senate confirmed Tiffany Cunningham to the appellate court in July. Before joining the Delaware District Court in 2010, Stark was a U.S. magistrate judge for the District of Delaware, and before that, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.