Last week, after nearly a year long confirmation process, Susan Carney of Connecticut was confirmed by a vote of 71 to 28, with one abstention, for a position as a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals judge, reports Thomson Reuters News & Insight.
Carney served as deputy general counsel at Yale University for twelve years, reports The Connecticut Mirror, and will now hear appeals from lower courts in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Carney began her career as a Law Clerk to Judge Levin H. Campbell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Subsequently, she moved to private practice and eventually, to Yale. At Yale, Carney handled a variety of matters including intellectual property matters, transactional work and international university affiliations, cites her response to the Senate Committee's questionnaire.