For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 9, 2003

Nominations Sent to the Senate

J. Ronnie Greer, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, vice Thomas G. Hull, retired.

Thomas M. Hardiman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, vice William L. Standish, retired.

James J. Jochum, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, vice Faryar Shirzad.

William H. Pryor, Jr., of Alabama, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, vice Emmett Ripley Cox, retired.

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