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U.S.
Senator Member: Finance, Agriculture, Energy, Ethics and Aging Committees |
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For Immediate
Release Friday, February 8, 2008 |
CONTACT:Stephanie Valencia – 202-228-3630 |
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***Application Deadline February 15***
Deadline to Submit Applications to be Considered by Judicial Advisory Commission is Friday, February 15
Media Outlets, Please Post this Reminder in Your Community Calendar Sections DENVER, CO – As a reminder, the bipartisan judicial selection advisory commission established by Senator Salazar to recommend candidates to the President for the pending and upcoming judicial vacancies on the U.S. District Court in Colorado will be accepting applications until close of business on Friday, February 15, 2008. The commission has already received many resumes and has now formalized the process for how potential candidates can submit their names for consideration. Any person interested in being considered for Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation to fill one of the pending or upcoming judicial vacancies on the U.S. District Court must submit an application. The application process is open to all interested individuals. The Commission will review the applications and determine which applicants will subsequently be personally interviewed. The Commission will then conduct interviews on March 13 and 14 and forward a list of recommendations to Senator Salazar. Senator Salazar established the bipartisan commission to assist him in gathering a list of recommendations of nominees to send to the White House to fill the new vacancy on the U.S. District Court for Colorado as well as the two additional upcoming vacancies. Application forms are available by clicking here, on the Senator’s website at www.salazar.senate.gov or from Senator Salazar’s Denver office, 2300 15th Street, STE 450, Denver, CO 80202. Details on the application process are as follows:
Last month, in a letter to the White House, Senator Salazar stated to the White House, his intent to submit names of highly qualified individuals for consideration as nominees to fill the three judicial vacancies. Senator Salazar also announced that he would establish an eight-member, equally balanced, bipartisan commission to help select individuals for consideration to forward to the White House. The commission is now on track to enable Senator Salazar to submit individual names to the White House by March 15, 2008. The commission will also develop a set of recommendations for how to improve and formalize future federal judicial nomination processes. Senator Salazar’s eight-member bipartisan commission is chaired by Ross Buchanan, co-founder of the Denver law firm, Buchanan, Jurdem & Cederberg, P.C. and past President of the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. In addition to Mr. Buchanan the commission includes:
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