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Article: Berger, federal bench nominee, appears in D.C.
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- Charleston Gazette
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- September 10, 2009
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Kanawha Circuit Judge Irene C. Berger encountered little
resistance when she appeared before the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee in Washington on Wednesday as a nominee for a federal
judgeship.
At the recommendation of West Virginia's two U.S. senators,
Robert C. Byrd and Jay Rockefeller, President Obama nominated Berger
to fill the vacancy in the state's Southern District created when
U.S. District Judge David A. Faber assumed senior status, a sort of
semi-retirement, on Dec. 31.
Rockefeller introduced Berger to the committee's ranking
Republican member, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Sen. Sheldon
Whitehouse, D-R.I., who chaired the meeting.
He praised her calm and deliberate temperament ...