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IU McKinney Staffer Discusses Historic Judicial Nomination
03/31/2022
Nicole Burts, ’17, assistant director of student recruitment in the Office of Enrollment Management at IU McKinney, talked about the historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court for a story on WISH TV.
Burts said it was difficult to overstate the importance of Jackson’s nomination. The scrutiny Jackson faced was difficult to watch, Burts said, but she did an excellent job.
“Before we get folks to the bar, before we get them to the bench, we have to get them through legal education,” Burts said in the story.
During law school, Burts was a member of the Black Law Students Association, executive board member of the Indianapolis Bar Association Law Student Division, served as an admissions ambassador, and took part in IU McKinney’s pro bono program. She also served as a research assistant, was a judicial extern to Judge Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, interned at the Indiana Court of Appeals as a Carr L. Darden Fellow and worked as a certified legal intern at the Marion County Prosecutor's Office. She is a 2014 Indiana Conference for Legal Education Fellow through the Indiana Supreme Court.
