[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 154 (Friday, September 26, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9591-S9592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                    NOMINATION OF ANTHONY J. TRENGA

  Mr. WARNER. Mr. President, I rise today in support of an outstanding 
Virginian, Anthony J. Trenga, who has been nominated by the President 
to serve as an article III judge on the United States District Court 
for the Eastern District of Virginia.
  I am pleased to note that Mr. Trenga also enjoys the strong support 
of my colleague, Senator Webb. Senator Webb and I have worked closely 
together to provide the White House with recommendations of outstanding 
nominees to serve the Eastern District of Virginia. After interviewing 
more than a dozen candidates out of a very strong field of applicants, 
Senator Webb and I

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were honored to recommend Anthony Trenga for the Federal bench in the 
Eastern District of Virginia. He is an exceptionally skilled attorney 
and, in my view, he will make an outstanding Federal judge.
  Anthony Trenga has been practicing law before Federal courts in 
Virginia for more than 30 years. He has served as lead counsel in more 
than 50 cases before the Federal court in the Eastern District of 
Virginia on a wide range of subject areas. Since 1998, Mr. Trenga has 
worked at the law firm of Miller and Chevalier, where he specializes in 
litigation and trial practice. He is a fellow of the American College 
of Trial Lawyers and has served as a member of the faculty of the 
National Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia, 
sponsored by the Virginia CLE Committee of the Virginia Bar Foundation.
  Mr. Trenga received his law degree from the University of Virginia 
School of Law and completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton 
University. Upon graduation, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Ted 
Dalton, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia from 
1974 to 1975.
  From 1982 to 1998, Mr. Trenga was a partner at Sachs, Greenbaum & 
Tayler in Washington, DC, and a managing partner at Hazel & Thomas 
based in Fairfax, VA.
  Equally impressive to his legal career, though, is that despite the 
rigors of a busy legal practice, Mr. Trenga has always found time to be 
actively involved in community affairs. In addition to participating in 
his firm's pro bono program, Mr. Trenga serves as chairman and member 
of the Alexandria Human Rights Commission, the board of directors of 
the Northern Virginia Urban League, the board of trustees of the 
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and the board of directors for the 
Bethesda Center of Excellence.
  It is clear to me that Anthony Trenga is eminently qualified to sit 
as a jurist on this illustrious court. I note that the American Bar 
Association and the Virginia State Bar concur in this assessment, as 
both have given him their highest rating.
  I thank the committee for favorably reporting this exemplary nominee 
to the full Senate, and I urge my colleagues to vote to confirm him.