Dr. Amy Steigerwalt is a Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University; she received her PhD in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. Her research focuses on the selection of federal judges as well as gender differences in legislative behavior; she is the author of Battle Over Bench: Senators, Interest Groups, and Lower Federal Court Confirmations (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2010) as well as numerous articles about the federal judicial confirmation process. Her most recent book is Gendered Vulnerability: How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office (Uni...read more