WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today enthusiastically recommended confirmation of Debra Brown to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Wicker’s comments were made during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination.

“Judge Brown will be an outstanding addition to the federal bench,” Wicker said. “She has represented accomplishment and excellence her entire life. Ms. Brown will be good for the country and the people of Mississippi. I consider it a personal and high honor to recommend her to Senate Judiciary Committee and look forward to her confirmation.”

If confirmed, Ms. Brown would be the first African-American female Article III judge in Mississippi. She was among the first few African-American females to graduate from the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. In 1997, she earned her law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law.

During the hearing, Wicker called on his colleagues to join him in pushing for a new state-of-the-art courthouse to be constructed in Greenville, Mississippi, over which Judge Brown would likely preside.