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“today the Senate is expected to confirm an additional judicial nominee. With this vote, we will have confirmed 62 article III nominees during this Congress. More than half of these have been for vacancies designated as judicial emergencies. That is real progress. Over 72 percent of President Obama's judicial nominees have been confirmed. Morgan Christen is nominated to be U.S. circuit judge for the Ninth Circuit. Justice Christen received her B.A. from the University of Washington in 1983, and her J.D. from Golden Gate University Law School in 1986. After graduating from law school, she clerked for the Hon. Brian Shortell on the Alaska Superior Court in Anchorage. In 1987 she was hired at Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, working as an associate until 1992. She was a partner in the firm from 1993 to 2002. At that firm she was a general civil litigator, primarily representing plaintiffs. She began by assisting with large litigation projects. One of her most notable early matters involved serving on the liability team representing the State of Alaska in its claims for compensation arising from the Exxon Valdez oilspill. After the State settled its liability claim in 1991, she defended claims brought by individuals who argued the State's response to the spill was inadequate. By the time Justice Christen became a partner in 1993, she had developed a practice in Jones Act personal injury claims and was lead counsel in a case in the U.S.…”