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The Senate confirmed by voice vote Friday two more U.S. Attorneys.

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. Finley 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 is 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. Read more about Duffy here.

The Senate has now confirmed 51 of President Barack Obama’s U.S. Attorney nominees. The chamber has yet to consider another 16 would-be U.S. Attorneys who are waiting for votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee.