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Priscilla Owen (born 1954), United States federal judge for the Fifth Circuit

Priscilla Owen

Owen was nominated on May 9, 2001 by President George W. Bush to fill a vacancy on the Fifth Circuit created by Judge William Lockhart Garwood, who had taken Senior status on January 23, 1997.

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First, the Democrats were angry that two previous nominees that President Clinton had nominated to Garwood's empty seat, Jorge Rangel and Enrique Moreno, were never given hearings by the U.S. Senate during Clinton's second term because the Senate was at the time controlled by Republicans.

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