Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Applauds President-Elect Biden’s Appointment of Diverse Leaders, Calls on John Carney to Appoint Diverse Candidates to Delaware’s Courts and State Government

The President-Elect announced that people of color will comprise nearly half of his transition team, bucking his roots in the elitist “Delaware Way”

DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--President-elect Biden announced his transition team this week, fulfilling a promise to make his transition team, staff and future cabinet “a reflection of who we are as a nation.” The President confirmed his commitment to diversity while planning his transition in his home state of Delaware, where diversity in leadership is woefully inadequate.

The President-elect’s commitment stands in stark contrast to the most recent appointment by Delaware Governor John Carney, who replaced the first African American Justice on the Delaware Court of Chancery with another white man, making Andre Bouchard’s Chancery Court all-white once again. The appointment was even more disconcerting given the egregious ongoing inequality in Delaware’s judiciary compared to its prison population. While Delaware’s judiciary is only 15% comprised of people of color, 60% of the state’s prison population are people of color. The Governor also recently appointed a white woman, Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long, to lead outreach to Black communities that have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic.