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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved by voice vote two more of President Barack Obama’s U.S. Attorney nominees at its meeting Thursday.

They are:

• Stephanie Finley was tapped on Jan. 20 to replace acting U.S. Attorney William Flanagan in the Western District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney’s office. Flanagan has led the Shreveport, La.-based office since Donald Washington stepped down as U.S. Attorney in January. Flanagan’s son, Robert, made national headlines in January for allegedly tampering with the phones in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) with three men including conservative documentary film-maker James O’Keefe. The nominee has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana since 1995. Read more about her here.


Laura Duffy (voiceofsandiego.org)

• Laura Duffy was nominated on Feb. 24 to be U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California. She would be the first Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney in the Southern District since Carol Lam, who was one of the U.S. Attorneys dismissed during 2006 by the Bush administration. The district’s current interim U.S. Attorney is Karen P. Hewitt. Read more about her here.

The panel has now approved 51 of Obama’s U.S. Attorney nominees, 49 of whom have won Senate confirmation. The committee has yet to schedule votes for another 16 would-be U.S. Attorneys.