Word: amalya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bench to make sure the judges' backgrounds and attitudes more closely reflect the population's. When he took office, only 1% were female and only 5% were black or Hispanic. So far, a third of his appointments are women or members of a minority group, or both, like Amalya Kearse, 42, a black woman. She will sit on a U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, after the U.S. Supreme Court perhaps the most powerful bench in the country. One thing that has not changed: 95% of Carter's appointments are Democrats, just as 92% of Nixon's appointees were...