Federal judges in the Northern District of Georgia have settled on a successor for retiring U.S. Magistrate Judge Clayton Scofield III, but the selection process is being criticized as giving short shrift to African-American nominees.
Advocacy for Action, which organized in 2013 to push for broader diversity on the federal and state court benches in Georgia, said the process to replace Scofield was “flawed” and “unrepresentative” of the demographics of the Northern District.
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