Kelley Brisbon Hodge ’89 Named Federal Judicial Nominee

President Biden has nominated Kelley Brisbon Hodge ’89 a federal judicial nominee. If confirmed, Kelley will represent the U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania. This is President Biden’s twenty-first round of nominees for federal judicial positions and his eighth slate of nominations in 2022, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 112.

According to a White House press release, the candidates named in this most recent round of nominations are “extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.”

Kelley rose to prominence locally when she was appointed Interim D.A. for the City of Philadelphia from 2017-2018. She was the first Black woman to hold that role.

Now a partner at Fox Rothschild LLC, Kelley was previously Of Counsel at Elliott Greenleaf in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2017 and 2018 to 2020. Prior to that, she served as the Title IX Coordinator and Executive Assistant to the President at the University of Virginia; the Safe Schools Advocate under the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; and a public defender in Richmond, Virginia.

Kelley earned a J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law and B.A. from the University of Virginia.