A major sex scandal involving a judge nominated by former President Barack Obama has erupted, yet she is continuing to serve.

As Bloomberg Law reported on Tuesday, a special committee for the Eleventh Circuit discovered that the judge carried out a two-year sexual affair in her “chambers and during business hours” with a police commander.

According to Bloomberg Law, the incidents all occurred within “earshot” of law clerks.

The entire affair created a major conflict of interest and made the judge vulnerable to extortion.

From Bloomberg Law:

A special judicial conduct committee of the Eleventh Circuit found a judge, who wasn’t named in the report, engaged in sexual intercourse in “chambers and during business hours” over the course of a two-year relationship, according to the panel’s recently released report. This relationship “demonstrated a gross lack of judgment” and resulted in a “chambers workplace that was extremely uncomfortable and troubling for clerks,” the report said.

The affair was with an unidentified police department commander, creating a “conflict-of-interest risk,” the report said.

The judge was also found to have improperly attended a partisan political event hosted by a district attorney’s campaign, and to have made false statements to judges investigating the conduct.

The Judicial Conference’s judicial conduct and disability committee in a May 22 order affirmed a February misconduct finding by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s judicial council. A December special committee report laid out the allegations against and resulting investigation of the judge.

On Thursday, Bloomberg Law identified the judge as Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia.

Ross, who is married to a DeKalb County judge and former prosecutor, was also found by the committee to have attended a partisan political event hosted by a district attorney’s campaign and to have lied to judges investigating her conduct.

Despite these damning findings, Ross has refused to resign.

On December 19, 2013, Obama nominated Ross to serve as a United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Ross was confirmed by the Senate on a voice vote
on November 18, 2014.

Ross received her judicial commission on November 20, 2014.

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