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Nomination of Peter W. Hall to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit

Date: June 24, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Judicial Branch

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
SENATE
June 24, 2004

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.

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