BUSH NAMES J. MAC DAVIS TO FEDERAL BENCH

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com

By Michael Horne

and the Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team

President George W. Bush (R-Texas) has named Waukesha County District Court Chief Judge J. Mac Davis [U-Michigan '76] to the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The announcement, dated September 9th, 2008, can be found on the White House website. Davis would replace Judge John C. Shabaz, [Marquette U '57] who is retiring.
Davis, who served as a Republican State Senator representing the 11th District from 1983 to 1980, joined Branch 7 of the Waukesha County court in 1990.
Nomination PN1990-110 was received by Secretary of the Senate Nancy Erickson on September 9th. The South Dakota native immediately assigned the nomination to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which, as of this writing, has yet to schedule a hearing on the matter. You'll be the first to know if it ever gets to that point. Let's just say that committee member Joe Biden probably has other things on his agenda right now, and chairman Pat Leahy has shown no alacrity in seeing that the Bush administration's lame duck appointments be confirmed.
Even Davis is telling his friends, "nothing will come of it, but kinda fun."
Take f'rinstance the example of Nomination PN1876-110, from way back on July 15th, 2008, when the president nominated Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Timothy G. Dugan to replace the retiring Judge Rudolph T. Randa on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. No hearings have yet been scheduled on that nomination, either.