by Aaron Sadler, Stephens Washington Bureau: Six Arkansas attorneys - including a state appellate court judge, a former federal prosecutor and the lawyer who handled the disbarment case against President Clinton - are candidates for a vacant federal judgeship in Little Rock. President Bush will nominate one of the six to succeed the late Judge George Howard of Pine Bluff. Howard, the first and only black U.S. district judge in Arkansas, died in April at age 82. Congressman John Boozman (R-AR) is expected to forward the names to the White House today. Boozman declined to disclose his choices on Thursday but other sources in Washington and in Arkansas confirmed their identities: Chuck Banks, 60, of Little Rock, a former U.S. attorney who was previously nominated to the federal bench; Brian Miller, 39, a Helena lawyer recently appointed to the Arkansas Court of Appeals; Marie-Bernarde Miller, 55, the Little Rock lawyer chosen by her peers in 2000 to pursue disbarment proceedings against Clinton; Kevin Crass, 48, of Little Rock, served as personal attorney to Gov. Mike Huckabee & has been a special justice of the state Supreme Court; Leon Johnson, 45, of Little Rock, a former Pulaski County circuit judge; and Jeannette Robertson, 52, of Jonesboro, a trial attorney with her own law practice . . . [Read More]
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