[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15531]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     LEIGH MAY, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, one of the great honors of being a Member 
of the Senate is the participation and the confirmation process the 
Constitution dictates to us on Federal judges and other critical 
appointees, such as Cabinet members of the President.
  I have today a distinct honor and privilege to recommend to all of my 
colleagues in the Senate a Georgia lawyer who has been nominated by the 
President of the United States, with the approval of Senator Chambliss 
and myself, to the Northern District Court of Georgia. Her name is 
Leigh May. She is an unbelievably exciting, unbelievably knowledgeable, 
unbelievably accomplished individual.
  She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the 
top three engineering schools in the United States of America, with 
honors, in 1993. Then, in 1998, she graduated from the University of 
Georgia Law School with a juris doctorate degree, magna cum laude in 
her class.
  From 1998 to 2000, she served as a law clerk to Judge Dudley H. 
Bowen, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of 
Georgia. She is a partner in the Atlanta office of Butler, Wooten & 
Fryhofer, LLP, one of the leading law firms in our State. Her practice 
focuses on complex civil litigation in both the State and Federal 
courts, and she is currently vice chair of the litigation section of 
the Atlanta Bar Association. Her ABA rating is unanimously very 
``qualified.''
  She is a very talented, very deserving person. I thank the President 
for his nomination. I thank Kathy Ruemmler, who was his leading advisor 
at the time, for her cooperation in this nomination.
  I close my recommendation to my colleagues by telling them this: 
Please vote for the cloture motion today so we can vote for 
confirmation tomorrow.
  This May, I was asked to address the University of Georgia's 
graduation ceremony in Athens, GA. After the speech I made, I went back 
to the dressing room in the green room, and the dean of the law school 
came up to me and said: I just want you to know, Mr. Isakson, you 
nominated one of the smartest people to ever graduate from the law 
school of the University of Georgia when you nominated Leigh May.
  I can't think of a higher or a better recommendation, and I commend 
Leigh May to my colleagues of the Senate with my highest recommendation 
in the hopes that folks will vote today to go to cloture and vote for 
the confirmation tomorrow to confirm Leigh May to the Northern District 
of Georgia.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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