Obama Nominates Judge Leonard Stark and Amy Totenberg to the US District Court , details on each

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(Photo Credit: University of Delaware, UDaily)
Judge Leonard P. Stark, US Magistrate Judge for the District of Delaware
Nominee for the US District Court for the District of Delaware
40 Years Old

Judge Leonard P. Stark is a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Delaware, a position he has held since 2007. Previously, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Delaware and an associate in the Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He began his legal career in Wilmington, Delaware, as a law clerk to the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Stark graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with three degrees: an M.A. in History, a B.S. in Economics, and a B.A. in Political Science. In 1993, he received a doctorate degree in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1996. -WH

Delaware News Journal: Obama nominates Stark for U.S. District Court judge in Del.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010100317038




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Amy Totenberg, Attorney, Arbitrator, and Special master in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Nominee for the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Sister of Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondent.
59 Years Old.

Since 2000, Amy Totenberg has been a sole practitioner and arbitrator based in Atlanta. She serves as a special master in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and as a court monitor in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. From 1994 to 1998, Totenberg served as the first in-house general counsel for the Atlanta school system. Before that, she focused on civil litigation, primarily as a sole practitioner. She also served as a part-time Municipal Court Judge for the City of Atlanta from 1988 to 1993. Totenberg received her J.D. in 1977 from Harvard Law School, and her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1974. -WH

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Amy Totenberg nominated to be federal judge
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/amy-totenberg-nominated-to-378449.html

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1. Amy Totenberg has contributed significantly to Democratic candidates in the past

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2. When I heard the name Totenberg, I was wondering if she was any relation to Nina

Thanks for answering that question before I got a chance to ask. :)