
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 11, 1990                   TAG: 9005110186
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: LESLIE TAYLOR STAFF WRITER
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PANEL OKS JUDGESHIP

The Senate Judiciary Committee at a confirmation hearing Thursday approved the nomination of Roanoke lawyer Samuel G. Wilson for a federal judgeship in the Western District of Virginia.

Philip Smith, press secretary for U.S. Sen. John Warner, said the committee's vote was unanimous. Wilson's nomination is expected to go to the Senate floor for a vote next week, Smith said.

President George Bush announced in March that he was nominating Wilson, 40, for the judgeship vacancy created by the retirement of U.S. District Judge Glen Williams of Lee County.

Wilson, a lawyer with Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove since 1981, was considered the front-runner in a pool of three candidates recommended by Warner to succeed Williams.

by CNB