The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on Tuesday for Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, President Obama’s nominee for the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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Thompson, who has been a trial-court judge in Rhode Island for 21 years — first on the District Court and, since 1997, the Superior Court — maintains the vigorous support of Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, who recommended her to replace Senior Circuit Judge Bruce M. Selya.
“Judge Thompson has a long and distinguished record as a lawyer and a judge in Rhode Island for over 20 years and is a highly qualified nominee with an exemplary record,” the senators said in a joint statement last month. “The ABA plays a limited advisory role, and has nowhere near the familiarity with judicial candidates that we do in Rhode Island. It is up to the Senate to decide who is qualified to serve on the federal bench –– and we are confident that our colleagues in the Senate will support Judge Thompson.”
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