{"id":217334,"date":"2010-01-12T17:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef012876cd14b5970c"},"modified":"2010-01-12T17:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:40:40","slug":"finalists-named-for-vacancies-in-chicago-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217334","title":{"rendered":"Finalists named for vacancies in Chicago federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal court in Chicago has four\u00a0vacancies\u00a0on the bench, and the nomination process is slowly coming to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne\u00a0Marek of the National Law Journal reported Tuesday\u00a0that President Obama has pared the list of candidates from seven to three. The finalists are Judge Susan Coleman, Sidley Austin\u00a0partner Gary Feinerman and Mary Rowland, a partner at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick\u00a0&amp; Dym.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that there are three finalists for four openings is that the fourth vacancy came after Sen. Dick Durbin submitted his recommendations to the White House in August.<\/p>\n<p>James Holderman, the chief of the court,\u00a0hopes the president will make\u00a0the\u00a0nominations\u00a0and the Senate will confirm\u00a0them sometime early this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202437873043&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=Law.com&amp;pt=Law.com%20Newswire%20Update&amp;cn=LAWCOM_NewswireUpdate_20100112&amp;kw=Obama%20Focuses%20on%20Three%20Judge%20Nominees%20for%20Chicago\" >according to Marek&#8217;s story<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal court in Chicago has four\u00a0vacancies\u00a0on the bench, and the nomination process is slowly coming to a close. Lynne\u00a0Marek of the National Law Journal reported Tuesday\u00a0that President Obama has pared the list of candidates from seven to three. The finalists are Judge Susan Coleman, Sidley Austin\u00a0partner Gary Feinerman and Mary Rowland, a partner at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}