http://thetimes-tribune.com/polopoly_fs/1.461354!/image/3288780314.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/3288780314.jpgJudge Thomas Vanaskie, U. S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
Nominated by William J. Clinton on November 17, 1993
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Nominated by Barack H. Obama on August 7, 2009
55 years old
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday on the confirmation of U.S. District Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie to a seat on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
President Barack Obama nominated Vanaskie to the seat on the nation's second-highest court on Aug. 7. That court reviews rulings by federal judges in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands.
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