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Biden nominates two more judges for western Washington

SEATTLE (AP) — President Joe Biden has made two more nominations for the federal bench in western Washington state: Seattle lawyers Jamal Whitehead and Kymberly Evanson. Whitehead is a civil litigator who focuses on workplace discrimination and unfair labor practices. He recently represented a class of immigration detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma who successfully sued the private prison contractor The GEO Group for back pay, arguing that they should have been granted the minimum wage for cooking, cleaning and other tasks they performed. Evanson has represented state, municipal, private and nonprofit clients on constitutional, electoral, public disclosure and administrative issues, including the First Amendment and the Americans with Disabilities Act.