Norton District Court Recommendation, Randolph Moss, Approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Randolph Moss's nomination to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was approved today by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Moss's nomination was recommended to President Obama by Norton.
Moss is currently a partner at the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (Wilmer Hale), where he chairs the firm's Regulatory and Government Affairs Department. Before rejoining Wilmer Hale in 2001, Moss worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, for five years, and was ultimately appointed by President Clinton, and confirmed by the Senate, as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel. Moss began his legal career clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court, and Judge Pierre Leval, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Moss is a graduate of Hamilton College, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the law review.
"Randolph Moss's brilliance as a lawyer in the public and private sectors, as his professional reputation attests, will make him a very able addition to our distinguished bench," said Norton. "The full Senate should now be able to move quickly to confirm Randolph Moss, and I have every confidence they will do so."
President Obama, like President Clinton, granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend candidates for federal district court judges and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District. The Congresswoman recommended Moss from a number of candidates screened by her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, a special counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP and a former president of the D.C. Bar. President Obama has nominated and the Senate has confirmed all eight of Norton's other recommendations for district court judges – Ketanji Brown Jackson, Amy Berman Jackson, James E. Boasberg, Rudolph Contreras, Beryl A. Howell, Robert L. Wilkins, Casey Cooper and Tanya Chutkan. Wilkins now serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Published: June 19, 2014