The Senate yesterday voted 96 to 1 to confirm Claria Horn Boom to the federal bench in the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky. Boom is a 1994 graduate of Vanderbilt Law School and a former U.S. Attorney in Kentucky. She has been a member of the Lexington firm Frost Brown Tood LLC since 2006, where her practice included representing various banks in commercial lending transactions, complicated workouts, and other corporate and regulatory matters. She also represented various businesses, pipeline companies, and insurance companies in transactional matters.