UW law professor nominated for Court of Appeals bench

President Obama on Wednesday nominated UW-Madison law professor Victoria F. Nourse to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to replace retiring Judge Terence Evans. Nourse, 51, who has been at UW since 1993, has also been a visiting professor at Yale University, New York University and Emory University. At UW-Madison she teaches courses in legislation, statutory interpretation, constitutional history and criminal law and has written extensively on those topics, as well as the separation of powers.