[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 191 (Thursday, December 8, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7046-S7047]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                   Nomination of Jeffrey Paul Hopkins

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today, the Senate will vote to confirm 
another highly qualified judicial nominee: Jeffrey Hopkins, who has 
been nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of 
Ohio.
  Judge Hopkins received his A.B. from Bowdoin College and his J.D. 
from the Ohio State University College of Law. After graduating from 
law school, Hopkins clerked for Judge Alan E. Norris, both on the Ohio 
Court of Appeals for the Tenth District and on the U.S. Court of 
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
  For the last 25 years, Judge Jeffrey Hopkins has served with 
distinction as a Federal bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of 
Ohio. In this role, Judge Hopkins has presided over approximately 3,000 
cases that have gone to verdict or judgement, and he served as chief 
judge of the district's bankruptcy court from 2014 to 2021. Prior to 
being appointed to the bench, Judge Hopkins worked as a litigator in 
private practice and served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern 
District of Ohio, where he became chief of the civil division in the 
U.S. Attorney's Office.

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  Judge Hopkins has the strong, bipartisan support of his home State 
Senators, Mr. Brown and Mr. Portman. Additionally, he received a 
unanimous rating of ``well qualified'' from the ABA. I support this 
highly qualified nominee, and I urge my colleagues to do so as well.