Prosecutor Bumb picked for U.S. bench

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, January, 2006 | by Kaitlin Gurney and Troy Graham

Renee Bumb, the corruption-busting assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted then-Camden Mayor Milton Milan, was nominated by President Bush yesterday to the federal bench in Camden.

The President named three others to U.S. District Court in New Jersey: Noel Hillman, who led the federal investigation into lobbyist Jack Abramoff; federal Magistrate Judge Susan Wigenton; and prominent GOP lawyer Peter Sheridan. He selected Michael A. Chagares, a protege of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's, to fill his onetime boss' place on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In Pennsylvania, Bush nominated Reading lawyer Thomas M. Golden, a former president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, to U.S. District Court.

The New Jersey nominations were...