The President today announced that he will nominate Shellie F. Bowers and Harriett R. Taylor to fill two vacancies on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Bowers, 42, received a B.A. from Lincoln University in Missouri in 1957 and LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Georgetown Law Center in 1962 and 1963, respectively. He worked for the Justice Department for 1 year and has since been in private practice in the District of Columbia.
Taylor is an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia's Office of Consumer Protection, a position she has held since 1976. She has practiced law in Washington since 1961. Taylor attended Brooklyn College and Columbia Law School, receiving an LL.B. in 1955. She is 46.
Jimmy Carter, Superior Court of the District of Columbia Nomination of Two Associate Judges. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249866