Senate hearing set for judicial nominee Totenberg

By Bill Rankin

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a confirmation hearing next Wednesday for Amy Totenberg, one of President Barack Obama's nominees to the U.S. District Court bench in Atlanta.

If confirmed by the Senate, Totenberg would fill one of four judicial vacancies on the federal bench here. Obama has also nominated Steve Jones, a Superior Court judge from Athens, to fill one of the other vacancies. His hearing has yet to be scheduled.

From 1994 to 1998, Totenberg was the first in-house general counsel for the Atlanta school system. Since 2000, she has practiced law and served as a private mediator and arbitrator. She obtained her law degree from Harvard in 1977 and  is the sister of Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent.