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William Horsley Orrick, III (born 1953) is Special Counsel at the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP and is a nominee for United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He formerly served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Biography

Orrick was born in San Francisco, California in 1953. He received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude, from Yale University in 1976. He received his Juris Doctorate cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1979. After graduating, he worked for the Georgia Legal Services Program from 1979 to 1984. He joined the San Francisco law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in 1984 and continued there for twenty five years, becoming a partner in 1988. From June 2009 to June 2010, he served as counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. From 2010 to 2012, he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division. His father, William H. Orrick, Jr., was a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California and served as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division in the Kennedy Administration.

Nomination to District Court

On June 11, 2012, President Obama nominated Orrick to be a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to the seat vacated by Judge Charles R. Breyer, who took senior status on December 31, 2011. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on his nomination on July 11, 2012, and reported it to the floor on August 2, 2012. On January 2, 2013, his nomination was returned to the President, due to the adjournment sine die of the Senate.

On January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same office. His nomination was reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 28, 2013, by a vote of 11 ayes to 7 nays, mostly along party lines, except that Republican Senator Jeff Flake voted aye.

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to take a floor vote on Orrick's nomination on May 15, 2013.

References

1. Senate Judiciary Committee Questionnaire
3. Nomination announcement from whitehouse.gov
4. Senate Judiciary Committee
5. Renomination announcement
6. http://www.senate.gov/galleries/pdcl/

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