[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 28, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  CONGRATULATIONS JUDGE PAIGE GOSSETT

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 28, 2009

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, I wish to congratulate 
my long time friend, Paige Jones Gossett, as she receives the Oath of 
Office and takes the bench as United States Magistrate Judge for the 
District of South Carolina.
  Known by her nickname Cricket, she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of 
the University of South Carolina Honors College, finished as the third 
highest rated graduate in her law school class, and received nearly 
every academic award available. Prior to her election as a South 
Carolina Administrative Law Judge in 2006, she had over ten years of 
private practice experience as a partner in the Willoughby & Hoefer law 
firm in Columbia.
  I also want to congratulate Chief Judge David C. Norton and the other 
District Judges in South Carolina for selecting Judge Gossett from a 
large pool of highly qualified applicants. Her intelligence and 
temperament are the ideal qualities that we should seek in judicial 
candidates.
  On a personal note, I am particularly grateful for her success which 
is complemented by the achievement of her husband, my former State 
Senate Chief of Staff, Jeff Gossett, who is the first Republican Clerk 
of the South Carolina Senate in over 100 years. They are raising three 
outstanding children: Jackson Keith Gossett, Ainsley Cooper Gossett, 
and Anna Katherine Gossett.
  Congratulations, Judge Paige Gossett.

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