CITIZENS FOR A PRO-BUSINESS DELAWARE SLAMS LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND CLEAR CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN RECENT CHANCERY COURT NOMINATIONS

Governor Carney once again ignores voices of community leaders calling for diversity in announcing the hurried and biased nomination of Lori Will to replace Chancellor Bouchard on Chancery Court and the promotion of Vice Chancellor Kathleen McCormick to Chancellor.

Yet again, Governor John Carney disregarded pleas for racial diversity in the Chancery Court through the recent nomination of former Skadden Arps lawyer Lori Will to join the Court as a Vice Chancellor, replacing outgoing Chancellor Andre Bouchard, while picking current Vice Chancellor Kathleen McCormick to rise to Chancellor.

On April 9, 2021, Governor John Carney nominated Lori Will, a white woman, to replace the open seat left by Chancellor Andre Bouchard. Despite pastors and community leaders calling for a Black justice on the court, Governor Carney once again nominated an elite white lawyer to a court whose decisions affect thousands of Black workers.

The nomination process lacked even basic oversight and transparency measures such as a public judicial nominating commission or public list of final candidates. In the face of such a rigged process and yet another failure of diversity, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware is calling on the Delaware Senate to specifically question how Will plans to deliver justice to Delaware’s communities of color, who comprise nearly 40% of the state’s population.