Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Stephen Higginson to Serve on United States Court of Appeals

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(Photo Credit: Loyola University Newsroom)
Stephen Higginson, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana and Associate professor of law at Loyola College of Law
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
50 Years Old

A federal prosecutor for two decades, Higginson is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. He also earned a master in philosophy from Cambridge University in England.

After graduating from Yale Law School, Higginson was a law clerk to Patricia Wald of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The following year, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White.

He has been an assistant U.S. attorney since 1989, when he joined the Criminal Division in the District of Massachusetts. Since 1993, Higginson has worked in New Orleans, where he became the chief of appeals in 1995, personally handling or supervising all criminal and civil appeals, editing or writing more than 100 appellate briefs, and presenting numerous oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on which he would, if confirmed, serve.

Higginson is married to Collette Creppell, who is a former director of the New Orleans City Planning Commission...

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/05/stephen_higginson_nominated_to.html

White House release:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/05/president-obama-announces-intent-nominate-stephen-higginson-serve-united

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1. Special thanks to DUers Hawaii Hiker and Tx4obama for keeping me updated and interested...

... in federal judicial nominations.

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3. awww.. You're welcome :) n/t

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2. Vitter likes him, that's a bit scary.

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4. Vitter campaign contributions

Higginson http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/article/Obama-taps-federal-prosecutor-to-fill-5th-Circuit-1372430.php">donated to Vitter, on multiple occasions. That's even scarier.

They're both Harvard '83, so maybe it was a personal rather than political donation. But still...

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5. Pres Obama sent the nomination to the Senate today, May 9th.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/09/presidential-nominations-sent-senate-592011