Editing Bill Clinton (section)

===Judicial appointments===

{{Main|Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates|List of federal judges appointed by Bill Clinton}}
[[File:Announcement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Nominee for Associate Supreme Court Justice at the White House - NARA - 131493870.jpg|thumb|[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] accepting her nomination to the Supreme Court from President Clinton, 1993]]

Clinton appointed two justices to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]: [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] in 1993<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx | title=Biographies of Current Justices of the Supreme Court | publisher=Supreme Court | access-date=August 30, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721063602/https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx| archive-date=July 21, 2011 | url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Stephen Breyer]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://law.onecle.com/ussc/justices/512usxi-appointment-of-justice-breyer.html | title=Appointment and swearing in of Justice Breyer, 1994 | publisher=Law.onecle.com | date=September 30, 1994 | access-date=February 22, 2020}}</ref> Both justices went on to serve until the 2020s, leaving a lasting judicial legacy for President Clinton.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clinton Legacy: Moderate Judge Appointments|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/0801clinton-crime-judges.html|access-date=January 31, 2022|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref>

Clinton was the first president in history to appoint more women and minority judges than white male judges to the federal courts.<ref name="Scherer, p. 85">{{cite book|author=Nancy Scherer|title=Scoring Points: Politicians, Activists, and the Lower Federal Court Appointment Process|publisher=Stanford University Press|date=2005|page=85}}</ref> In his eight years in office, 11.6% of Clinton's court of appeals nominees and 17.4% of his district court nominees were black; 32.8% of his court of appeals nominees and 28.5% of his district court nominees were women.<ref name="Scherer, p. 85"/>