Congratulations to Soror Tanya Walton Pratt on her historic nomination to the federal bench. During a press conference on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh announced Soror Pratt as a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. If confirmed Soror Pratt would become the state’s first African-American federal judge. Soror Pratt currently serves as a judge in the probate division of Marion Superior Court. From 1997 to 2008, she was a judge in that court’s criminal division. Soror Pratt is a graduate of Spelman College, where she was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, and Howard University School of Law.

Click here to read Soror Pratt’s congratulations from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s National President Cynthia M.A. Butler-McIntyre.