For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 28, 2005

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Timothy CA Batten, Sr., of Georgia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Vice Willis B. Hunt, Jr., retired.

Kristi DuBose, of Alabama, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, vice Charles R. Butler, retired.

Thomas E. Johnston, of West Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, vice Charles H. Haden, II, deceased.

Virginia Mary Kendall, of Illinois, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, vice Susanne B. Conlon, retired.

W. Keith Watkins, of Alabama, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Alabama, vice William Harold Albritton, III, retired.

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