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'''Edward Carroll DuMont''' (born December 1961) is a former [[Solicitor General]] of California.<ref name="oag.ca.gov">{{cite web|url=https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-announces-appointment-california-solicitor |title=Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces Appointment of California Solicitor General &#124; State of California - Department of Justice - Kamala D. Harris Attorney General |publisher=Oag.ca.gov |date=2013-10-28 |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref> In 2010 and 2011 he was nominated by President [[Barack Obama]] to a seat on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit]].<ref name="WH">[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-nominates-edward-c-dumont-united-states-court-appeals-federal-circu President Obama Nominates Edward C. DuMont for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit], White House press release (April 14, 2010).</ref> In November 2011, however, DuMont sent a letter to President Obama asking him to withdraw his nomination to the judgeship.<ref name="law.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202531041506&rss=newswire&slreturn=1 |last=Qualters |first=Sheri |title=Edward DuMont asks Obama to withdraw his nomination to Federal Circuit |date=November 9, 2011 |website=law.com |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref> Obama withdrew DuMont's nomination on November 10, 2011, nominating [[Richard G. Taranto]] in DuMont's place.

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DuMont would have been the first [[openly gay]] [[United States courts of appeals|United States appeals court]] judge.<ref name=mw_20100416>Chris Geidner, [http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=5094 Breaking Barriers: Edward DuMont, praised by colleagues as "brilliant," would be the first openly gay federal appellate judge in the country], ''[[Metro Weekly]]'' (April 16, 2010).</ref> His partner is Newton Kendig.<ref name=advocate_20100423>Ryan Holman, [http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/04/23/President_Obama_Nominates_Gay_Man_to_Federal_Court/ Obama Nominates Gay Man to Fed. Court] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426153740/http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/04/23/President_Obama_Nominates_Gay_Man_to_Federal_Court/ |date=2010-04-26 }}, ''[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]'' (April 23, 2010).</ref>

The [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] never scheduled a hearing on the nomination. On November 9, 2011, the National Law Journal reported that DuMont had submitted a letter to President Obama, asking that the president withdraw his nomination.<ref name="law.com"/> Obama did so on November 10, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/10/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawl-sent-senate |title=Presidential Nominations and Withdrawl &#91;sic&#93; Sent to the Senate &#124; The White House |date=2011-11-10 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=2013-12-04}}</ref>

 

 

 

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