Rep. Chris Collins is pushing his business partner's brother, John L. Sinatra Jr., for federal judgeship, stunning good government
advocates and raising concerns among women lawyers because he would take the seat that the Obama administration wanted to fill with Buffalo's first - ever
female district court
judge.
Schmid does not mention the particular difficulties of some
female candidates as a reason for adopting this policy, but enhanced evaluation methods like those she
advocates could very well help to overcome the problems that Jacobson cites, allowing evaluators more accurately to
judge researchers» scientific potential, whatever their gender, and that could only help women.