Political Quotes

“I advise my colleagues that the person we are about to vote on is one of the smartest candidates for Federal district court that I have ever seen nominated by a President of either party. His name is David Campbell. He is nominated to be a U.S. District Judge for the District of Arizona. He has a distinguished record in the State of Arizona, primarily with the Phoenix law firm of Osborn and Maledon. He was a graduate of the University of Utah Law School in 1979, where he was a note editor on the Law Review and was awarded the Order of Coif. He clerked for both Judge Clifford Wallace for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. He has practiced primarily in the civil area but has a broad experience, including a lot of work with the Arizona State Bar Association's Committee on Rules of Professional Responsibility, and he has been cobar counsel in a majority bar disciplinary case. In addition to his work in the law practice, he has taught as adjunct professor of law at the Arizona State University Law School and was a visiting professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University where he was named Professor of the Year. He has published articles and has had a distinguished career as a lawyer in the State of Arizona. I think the Senate will be proud to have confirmed him to the Federal bench.”