ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Charles Schumer has recommended a federal prosecutor in upstate New York for a federal judgeship based in Syracuse.
Schumer’s office says he has asked the White House to nominate Assistant U.S. Attorney Brenda Sannes to become a U.S. District Court judge in the Northern District of New York.
She would replace Judge Norman Mordue, who moved to senior status last June.
Sannes, a prosecutor in northern New York for more than a decade, is chief of the Appellate Division for the district’s U.S. attorney.
A graduate of Minnesota’s Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin Law School, she clerked for a federal appeals court judge. She was a litigation associate at Los Angeles law firm and was a federal prosecutor in California.
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