Service to community is central to Sixth Circuit nominee
Andre Mathis has been nominated by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Mathis, an attorney with Butler Snow law firm, would be the first Black man and second Black person to sit on the Sixth Circuit from Tennessee. (Daily Memphian file)
Andre Mathis spends a great deal of time on service, much of it to the Memphis neighborhoods where he was raised. He could be the first Black man from Tennessee confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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