For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 20, 2004

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Claude A. Allen, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, vice Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., deceased.

Paul S. Diamond, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, vice Herbert J. Hutton, retired.

Robert Bryan Harwell, of South Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, vice C. Weston Houck, retiring.

George P. Schiavelli, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice Lourdes G. Baird, retiring.

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