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Friday, June 20, 2008
Ind. Courts - "Rumors swirl about possible new federal judge"
Bill Dolan writes today in the NWI Times:
HAMMOND | Neither the White House nor U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., will comment on possible efforts to find a new federal judge for the Northern Indiana district.The Web site for the U.S. court system indicates one of the five judgeships in the U.S. District Court of Northern Indiana has been vacant since November when Judge Allen Sharp, who sits in South Bend, assumed the title of senior judge, which is tantamount to semi-retirement. Sharp has been a federal judge since the early 1970s.
The Web site indicates no one has been nominated to fill that vacancy.
Andy Fisher, spokesman for Lugar, said this week that comment on a possible replacement would have to come from the White House.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 20, 2008 11:24 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts