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Executive Order 11993—United States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission

May 24, 1977

RELATING TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE NOMINATING COMMISSION

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, and as President of the United States of America, Section 3 of Executive Order No. 11972 of February 14, 1977, is amended by redesignating the present text as subsection (a), redesignating the present lettered subsections as numbered paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4), and by adding the following new subsection (b):

"(b) The Panel for the District of Columbia Circuit shall have the additional function of recommending nominees for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in accordance with the standards and procedures prescribed by this order for recommending nominees for circuit judges.".

JIMMY CARTER

The White House,

May 24, 1977.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:03 p.m., May 25, 1977]

Note: The Executive order was not issued in the form of a White House press release.

Jimmy Carter, Executive Order 11993—United States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/243187

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