What is Deborah Batts?
'''Deborah Anne Batts''' (April 13, 1947 – February 3, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the Judge for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]] from 1994 to 2012, after being nominated by [[Bill Clinton]]. In June 1994, Deborah Batts was sworn in as a United States District Judge for [[Manhattan]], becoming the nation's first openly [[LGBT]], [[African-American]] federal judge.<ref>[[National Black Justice Coalition]] (February 20, 2009), [http://www.nbjcoalition.org/news/the-honorable-deborah-a.html ''The Honorable Deborah A. Batts: Profile in Courage'']{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, http://www.nbjcoalition.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709061425/http://www.nbjcoalition.org/ |date=2011-07-09 }}. Retrieved on March 5, 2009.</ref> She took [[senior status]] on her 65th birthday, April 13, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judge/batts-deborah-.|title=Batts, Deborah A. - Federal Judicial Center|publisher=}}</ref> Batts was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. Batts died on February 3, 2020 in [[Manhattan]] from problems caused by [[knee]] [[surgery]], aged 72.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deborah A. Batts, First Openly Gay Federal Judge, Dies at 72|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/nyregion/deborah-batts-dead.html|last1=Seelye|first1=Katharine Q.|last2=Weiser|first2=Benjamin|work=The New York Times|date=February 5, 2020|access-date=February 5, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Batts, Deborah}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:American judges]] [[Category:Lawyers from New York City]] [[Category:Lawyers from Philadelphia]] [[Category:African-American lawyers]] [[Category:Politicians from New York City]] [[Category:Politicians from Philadelphia]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:American LGBT politicians]] [[Category:LGBT people from New York City]] [[Category:LGBT people fro