Kim McLane Wardlaw
Kim Wardlaw | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
| Assumed office August 3, 1998 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | J. Clifford Wallace |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California | |
| In office December 26, 1995 – August 3, 1998 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Vreeland Kenyon |
| Succeeded by | Percy Anderson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kim Anita McLane July 2, 1954 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | William Wardlaw |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA, JD) |
Kim Anita McLane Wardlaw (born 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998. She is the first Hispanic American woman to be appointed to a federal appeals court. Wardlaw was considered as a possible candidate to be nominated by Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States.