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"Bush nominates Va. judge to fill vacancy on 4th Circuit"

"Bush nominates Va. judge to fill vacancy on 4th Circuit": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A federal judge in Virginia is President Bush's pick to fill one of several vacancies on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, widely viewed as the most conservative federal appellate bench in the country. The White House announced Thursday that Bush had nominated Glen E. Conrad to the Richmond, Va.-based appeals court, which has handled some of the country's biggest terrorism cases. Conrad has been a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia since 2003. If confirmed by the Senate, Conrad would fill the seat of H. Emory Widener Jr., who died last year." You can access Judge Conrad's Federal Judicial Center biography at this link, while the official announcement of the nomination can be accessed here.

Yesterday's nomination means that there are two U.S. District Judges with the last name Conrad whose nominations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit are now pending before the U.S. Senate. On July 17, 2007, President Bush nominated Chief Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina to the Fourth Circuit.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).