The Senate yesterday voted 86 to 1 to confirm John J. Tharp to the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Tharp is a 1990 graduate of Northwestern Univ. School of Law and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney. Most recently, he was a partner with Mayer Brown and co-chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice. Tharp was previously nominated to fill a judicial vacancy in the N.D. Ill. in 2008, but the Senate did not act on the nomination before the change in administration. Tharp's confirmation brings the total vacancies in the Northern District of Illinois to three.
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