ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, December 13, 1995 TAG: 9512130053
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
President Clinton has nominated Abingdon lawyer James P. Jones for a federal judgeship in the Western District of Virginia.
Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., recommended Jones, a former state senator and president of the State Board of Education, to the White House in August. The nomination will go to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which must confirm judicial nominees.
Jones, a partner in Penn, Stuart, Eskridge & Jones, would fill the vacancy created by Judge J. Harry Michael of Charlottesville, who assumed senior status this fall. If confirmed, Jones is expected to sit in Abingdon, where there is no full-time district judge.
As the state's only Democratic senator, it was Robb's role to recommend someone to
fill the vacancy. Robb said in a news release Tuesday that the judiciary committee was backlogged with other nominations, but it would try to put the nomination to a vote before the full Senate "as quickly as possible."
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