[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13419]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     NOMINATION OF JUAN R. SANCHEZ

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, I rise in support of the nomination of 
Chester County Common Pleas Judge Juan Sanchez who is on the docket for 
confirmation at the present time. Judge Sanchez was born in Puerto 
Rico, but emigrated to the United States at an early age and has an 
outstanding academic record from City College of New York, where he had 
his bachelor's degree cum laude in 1978. He graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania Law School with his J.D. degree and has a 
very impressive background. He served in the Legal Aid Society of 
Chester County where he was staff attorney for 2 years, and then a 
partner in a private law firm. He also served the County of Chester in 
the Public Defender's Office for some 4 years; and for the last 6 
years, he has been a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester 
County.
  Mr. Sanchez was nominated by the bipartisan nominating committee 
which Senator Santorum and I have recommended to the President, 
withstood the rigor of the examinations and has been voted out of 
committee unanimously. I think he will make an outstanding judge.
  I ask unanimous consent that Judge Sanchez's resume be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                  Juan R. Sanchez, Resume

     Birth: December 22, 1955, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
     Education: 1974-1978, City College of the City University of 
     New York B.A. degree, cum laude.
       1978-1981, University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. 
     degree.
     Bar Admittance: 1982, Pennsylvania.
     Experience: 1981-1983, Legal Aid of Chester County, Staff 
     Attorney.
       1983-1990, Nester, Nester & Sanchez Partner.
       1983-1997, County of Chester Public Defender's Office, 
     Senior Trial Attorney, 1993-1997, Trial Attorney, 1983-1993.
       1990-1997, Sole Proprietor.
       1997, MacElree, Harvey, Gallagher, Featherman & Sebastian, 
     Trial Attorney.
       1998--present, Chester County Court of Common Pleas, Judge.

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