Kai Scott

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| name = Kai Scott

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| office = Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

| term_start = January 18, 2023

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| appointer = Joe Biden

| predecessor = C. Darnell Jones II

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| office1 = Judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas

| term_start1 = January 2016

| term_end1 = January 18, 2023

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| birth_name = Kai Niambi Scott

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1970}}

| birth_place = {{nowrap|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.}}

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| party = Democratic

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| education = Hampton University (BA)
West Virginia University (JD)

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Kai Niambi Scott (born 1970){{Cite web |title=Biden nominates five, including former Philly DA, to federal courts in Pa. |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-nominates-five-including-former-philly-da-to-federal-courts-in-pa/ar-AAZuSjn |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=MSN |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Scott%20SJQ%20Public%20Final.pdf|title=Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees|publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|accessdate=August 31, 2022}} is an American attorney who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She previously served as a judge on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas from 2015 to 2023.

Education

Scott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1995.{{Cite press release |title=President Biden Names Twenty-First Round of Judicial Nominees |date=July 12, 2022 |publisher=The White House |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/12/president-biden-names-twenty-first-round-of-judicial-nominees/ |access-date=July 12, 2022}}

Career

From 1996 to 1998, Scott served as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers Compensation. From 1998 to 2004, she was a trial attorney for the Defender Association of Philadelphia. She served as an assistant federal public defender from 2004 to 2010. From 2010 to 2015, Scott served as the trial unit chief for the Federal Community Defender Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in 2015.{{cite web |title=2015 Municipal Election - Judge of the Court of Common Pleas - Philadelphia |url=https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/General/OfficeResults?OfficeID=49&ElectionID=43&ElectionType=G&IsActive=0}}

= Federal judicial service =

On July 12, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Scott to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. President Biden nominated Scott to the seat vacated by Judge C. Darnell Jones II, who assumed senior status on March 15, 2021.{{citation-attribution|1={{Cite press release|title=Nominations Sent to the Senate |date=July 12, 2022|publisher=The White House |location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/12/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-73/}} }} On September 7, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.{{Cite web|title=Nominations|date=August 31, 2022|publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/09/07/2022/nominations}} On September 28, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 13–9 vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/EBM%20Results%20-%202022-09-29.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 29, 2022|publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|accessdate=September 29, 2022}} On December 7, 2022, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 52–42 vote.{{Cite web|date=December 7, 2022|title=On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kai N. Scott to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00379.htm|access-date=December 7, 2022|website=United States Senate}} Later that day, her nomination was confirmed by a 50–42 vote.{{Cite web|date=December 7, 2022|title=On the Nomination (Confirmation: Kai N. Scott, of Pennsylvania, to U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania)|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00380.htm|access-date=December 7, 2022|website=United States Senate}} She received her judicial commission on January 18, 2023.{{FJC Bio|nid=12912491|inline=yes}}