Obama Appoints N.D. Miss. U.S. Attorney--You're Kidding, Right?
Over two years after his inauguration, President Obama nominated Felicia Adams to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi on Wednesday. The wire reports state:
President Barack Obama has nominated Assistant U.S. Attorney Felicia C. Adams as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi.
Adams has been an assistant U.S. attorney since 2000 in the state's Southern District. She held that position in the Northern District from 1989 to 2000.
She graduated from Jackson State University in 1981 and from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1984. Nominees for U.S. attorney must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
Congratulations to Adams. I have not heard one negative comment about Adams since her name first appeared on my radar over a year ago as a candidate for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals slot that went to Justice James Graves. She has been mentioned as a candidate for the U.S. Attorney position for a year.
Congratulations to the Obama administration for waking up and figuring out that Mississippi is a State with at least one U.S. Attorney position that the administration is supposed to fill.
No word on when the administration will nominate a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. But if I was John Dowdy (interim S.D. U.S. Attorney), I would go ahead and hang the pictures on the wall.
