[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13812]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 NOMINATION OF PETER W. HALL TO BE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT JUDGE FOR THE 
                             SECOND CIRCUIT

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the nomination.
  The legislative clerk read the nomination of Peter W. Hall, of 
Vermont, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.
  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise today to express my strong support 
for the confirmation of Peter W. Hall, who has been nominated to the 
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
  Mr. Hall is an exceptional nominee and well-prepared for the Federal 
bench. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
and a cum laude graduate from Cornell Law School, he served as a law 
clerk for United States District Court Judge Albert W. Coffrin in the 
District of Vermont. He then served in the United States Attorney's 
Office for the District of Vermont, first as an assistant U.S. 
Attorney, then as first assistant U.S. Attorney. From 1986 to 2001, Mr. 
Hall was a partner in the law firm of Reiber, Kenlan, Schwiebert, Hall 
& Facey, P.C. He then returned to the U.S. Attorney's Office--this time 
unanimously confirmed by the Senate--to be the United States Attorney 
for the District of Vermont, a position he holds today.
  Mr. Hall has been very active very in his community. He served as 
President of the Vermont Bar Association from 1995-96, on the Federal 
District Court Advisory Committee for the United States District Court 
in Vermont as a Citizen Board Member of the Vermont Criminal Justice 
Training Council, and on the Board of the Vermont Karelia Rule of Law 
Project. From 1989-1994, he was a nonpartisan elected member of select 
board for the town of Chittenden, VT, and in 1995, he was the elected 
Justice of the Peace for Chittenden. He has also been involved in the 
lay leadership of his church.
  Mr. Hall has overwhelming bipartisan support, including both of his 
home State Senators, Patrick Leahy and Jim Jeffords. The ABA 
unanimously rated him ``well qualified.'' He is an outstanding 
candidate who has been nominated to fill a vacancy that has been 
designated by the National Judicial Conference as a judicial emergency. 
I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting his nomination.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, shall the Senate advise and 
consent to the nomination of Peter W. Hall, of Vermont, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.
  The nomination was confirmed.

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