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Natasha Perdew Silas (born 1965) is a staff attorney at the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Georgia based in
Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
. She was also the nominee to a seat on the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (in case citations, N.D. Ga.) is a United States district court which serves the residents of forty-six counties. These are divided up into four divisions. Appeals from cases ...
. Her nomination was returned to the President on December 17, 2011, pursuant to the rules of the Senate.


Early life and education

Natasha Silas was born in 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia to Amanda Bowens Perdew and John Perdew. Mrs. Silas went to Frederick Douglass High School and graduated in 1983 as Valedictorian. Silas received a
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degree from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 1988 and a
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from
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in 1992, where she met her then-future and current husband, Kendal Silas.


Career

Between 1992 and 1994, Silas worked as a litigation associate at the law firm of
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, rebranded to the abbreviated name of Sutherland, was an AmLaw 100 American law firm. Founded in 1924 by William Sutherland and Elbert Tuttle as Sutherland & Tuttle, the firm originally achieved national promine ...
in Atlanta. Since 1994 she has worked as federal public defender in the Northern District of Georgia.


Northern District of Georgia nomination

Silas was first nominated to fill the seat of Judge Clarence Cooper by President
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
on January 26, 2011. She never received a vote and subsequently her nomination expired when it was returned to the President on December 17, 2011.


See also

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Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations, Congress confirmed 329 judgeships, 173 during the 111th & 112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congress ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Silas, Natasha Perdew Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Virginia School of Law alumni 1965 births Public defenders