[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 23340]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         VIRGINIA ANNE HOLSFORD

 Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, tomorrow a good friend of mine is 
retiring after 24 years of faithful and exemplary service as primary 
assistant for two federal judges in my state. Virginia Anne Holtsford 
served first as secretary and primary assistant to Judge Orma Smith, 
who was United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Mississippi. Upon his death she became the secretary and primary 
assistant to United States Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Judge E. Grady 
Jolly of Jackson, Mississippi. She has been with Judge Jolly from his 
first day on the bench, more than seventeen year ago. She is retiring 
to move back to her hometown of Iuka, Mississippi, to be with her 
mother.
  This is how Judge Jolly described Ms. Holtsford to me: ``Anne 
Holtsford has a very special way of dealing with folks that has 
endeared her to hundreds of people who transact business with the 
federal courts in Mississippi and, indeed, throughout the Fifth 
Circuit. I believe there is no more popular and better-liked secretary 
in the Fifth Circuit.''
  All of us who have had the good fortune to know Anne Holtsford 
appreciate her dedicated, friendly and professional service. We will 
miss her very much, but certainly she deserves a wonderful retirement.
  I join all of her many friends in commending her for a job well done 
and wishing her much happiness in the years ahead.

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