The U.S. Senate on Sunday voted 92-0 to confirm federal prosecutor Raymond J. Lohier Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Judge Lohier is the third nominee of President Barack Obama to win approval to the court. With his confirmation, six of the circuit’s 10 active judges now have been selected by Democratic presidents and five by Republicans.
Mr. Lohier, 45, who was nominated in March, was chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force at the Southern District U.S. Attorney’s Office and a former senior trial attorney with the Justice Department’s civil rights division. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, he was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton for four years and a senior attorney in the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney in 2000.
