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Long wait over for judge candidate

Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2001 | 10:24 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on an 83-0 vote Monday night approved Reno lawyer Larry Hicks as a U.S. District Court judge, a job Hicks has wanted for nearly a decade.

Hicks in a few weeks will start the job he was first nominated for nine years ago -- by President Bush's father. That nomination died when the Senate did not act on it and President Clinton became president. Presidents typically nominate judges from their own party.

After a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Hicks told reporters he has longed to serve in the high-profile court ever since. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., earlier this year recommended Hicks for the $145,100-a-year job and President Bush approved him in August.

Hicks, a former Washoe County district attorney and now partner in one of Nevada's largest law firms, McDonald, Carano, Wilson, McCune, Bergin, Frankovich & Hicks, will be the sixth full-time judge on the U.S. District Court in Nevada.

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