U.S. Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz will have to start again on the ladder to a federal circuit judgeship, now that the Senate’s 2011-12 session has ended without a confirmation vote.

Shwartz, whose nomination was initially delayed by a recalcitrant local senator and then by political deadlock, was renominated Thursday as the reconfigured Senate took office.

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