Judicial nominees for the Southern District of New York and the District of the Northern Mariana Islands did not endure an intense grilling from senators during their nominations hearing Thursday, The Blog of Legal Times reported.

Republican senators weren’t around to question Southern District of New York nominees Paul Engelmayer and J. Paul Oetken and the District of the Northern Mariana Islands nominee Ramona Manglona. Democrats asked only a few questions in the 20-minute session.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told The BLT that the senator couldn’t make the questioning because he had to attend a meeting with Iowa high school students.

Oetken would be the first openly gay man to serve in the federal judiciary if the Senate confirms him. He is currently senior vice president and associate general counsel at Cablevision Systems Corp.

Engelmayer leads the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He previously headed the Major Crimes Unit in the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office and was an assistant to the Solicitor General.

Manglona is an associate judge with the Northern Mariana Islands Superior Court.

A former U.S. Attorney for Guam was sworn in as the territory’s attorney general Monday, Guam News Watch reported.

Lenny Rapadas

Lenny Rapadas, who led the U.S. Attorney’s offices in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands from 2003 until 2010, will succeed Alicia Limtiaco. The Senate confirmed her as the U.S. Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in April.

Rapadas worked in the Guam attorney general’s office prior to his U.S. Attorney appointment.

“For almost 14 years, I prosecuted cases for you,” Rapadas said during his investiture, according to Guam News Watch. “I hope you saw me fight hard and more importantly, I hope you saw me fight fair.”

A former U.S. Attorney for Guam is set to become the territory’s Attorney General.

Lenny Rapadas

Lenny Rapadas, who led the U.S. Attorney’s offices in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands from 2003 until earlier this year, secured almost 56 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results on Tuesday. Gary “Frank” Gumataotao, a Guam lawyer, received about 44 percent of the vote. The election is nonpartisan.

U.S. Attorney Alicia Limtiaco of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands previously served as the Attorney General in the Pacific island territory. She resigned as Attorney General after the Senate confirmed her as U.S. Attorney in April.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved four U.S. Attorney nominees by voice vote at its meeting Thursday.

They are:

Alicia Limtiaco (UCLA)

– Alicia Limtiaco (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands): The Guam attorney general would replace U.S. Attorney Leonardo Rapadas, who has led the territories’ offices since 2003. President Barack Obama nominated her on Feb. 24. Read more about her here.

– Kenneth J. Gonzales (New Mexico): The Assistant U.S. Attorney, who has worked in the New Mexico U.S. Attorney’s Office since 1999, would replace interim U.S. Attorney Gregory Fouratt, who has led the office since David Iglesias was forced out during the 2006 U.S. Attorney firings. Obama tapped Gonzales on March 3. Read more about Gonzales here.

David Hale (Reed Weitkamp Schell & Vice)

– Kerry Harvey (Eastern District of Kentucky): Harvey has been the general counsel and acting inspector general of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services since 2008. He previously was a partner at Owen, Harvey & Carter. President Barack Obama tapped him on Jan. 20 to succeed U.S. Attorney James A. Zerhusen. Read more about Harvey here.

– David J. Hale (Western District of Kentucky): Hale is a partner at Reed Weitkamp Schell & Vice in Louisville, Ky., and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district. Obama nominated him on Jan. 20 to succeed David L. Huber, who stepped down as U.S. Attorney last year. The district’s interim U.S. Attorney is Candace G. Hill. Read more about the nominee here.

The panel has now approved 45 U.S. Attorney nominees, 36 of whom have won Senate confirmation. The committee has yet to schedule votes for another 21 would-be U.S. Attorneys.

The Senate Judiciary Committee added two more U.S. Attorney nominees to the agenda for its meeting Thursday.

They are:

Alicia Limtiaco (UCLA)

– Alicia Limtiaco (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands): The Guam attorney general would replace U.S. Attorney Leonardo Rapadas, who has led the territories’ offices since 2003. President Barack Obama nominated her on Feb. 24. Read more about her here.

– Kenneth J. Gonzales (New Mexico): The Assistant U.S. Attorney, who has worked in the New Mexico U.S. Attorney’s Office since 1999, would replace interim U.S. Attorney Gregory Fouratt, who has led the office since David Iglesias was forced out during the 2006 U.S. Attorney firings. Obama tapped him on March 3. Read more about Gonzales here.

The panel had previously announced it would consider Eastern District of Kentucky U.S. Attorney nominee Kerry Harvey and Western District of Kentucky U.S. Attorney nominee David J. Hale on Thursday.

The committee has yet to schedule votes for another 21 would-be U.S. Attorneys. The panel has approved 41 U.S. Attorney nominees, 36 of whom have won Senate confirmation.

Alicia Limtiaco (UCLA)

Alicia Limtiaco (University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law) is nominated to be the U.S. Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. She would replace Bush holdover Leonardo M. Rapadas.

Her vitals:

• Born in Tamuning, Guam, in 1963.
• Has been the Guam attorney general since January 2007.
• Worked an assistant professor at the  University of Guam from December 2002 to December 2006. Was an adjunct professor from 1998 to 2003. Also was an adjunct professor at Guam Community College from 1998 to 2003.
• Was a name partner at the firm now known as Cruz, Sison & Terlaje, PLLC in Sinajana, Guam from June 2002 to December 2006. Worked as an associate at the firm from September 2000 to June 2002.
• Served as the Guam assistant attorney general from January 1998 to July 2000.
• Was an associate at Arriola, Cowan & Arriola in Hagatna, Guam from January 1996 to November 1997.
• Worked in the Guam attorney general’s office from August 1991 to January 1996 serving as deputy attorney general, acting chief prosecutor and assistant attorney general.
• Clerked for the Honorable Benjamin J. F. Cruz in the Superior Court of Guam in Hagatna, Guam, from August 1990 to August 1991. Also clerked for Cruz during the summer of 1988.
• Was a judicial extern for the Honorable Terry J. Hatter Jr. in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California in Los Angeles from August 1989 to December 1989.
• Worked as a law clerk at Booth Mitchel & Strange LLP in Los Angeles during the summer of 1989.
• Worked at General Telephone and Electronics in Thousand Oaks, Calif., from June 1985 to July 1987 as a program management analyst and accounting unit supervisor.
• Has tried approximatly 20 cases to verdict, judgment or final decision, serving as sole counsel in approximately 13 cases, chief counsel in approximately two cases and associate counsel in approximately five cases.
• Conducted legal research and analysis for the U.S. Supreme Court case Honofre J. O. Chargualaf v. United States of America. Drafted petition for writ of certiorari which was denied.
• Was the petitioner in Limtiaco v. Camacho (2007). Her attorney general’s office engaged the legal services of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP who drafted the petition for writ of certiorari and argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Limtiaco met with Wilmer Hale in preparation for and prior to the oral argument and attended the oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Click here for her full Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.

UPDATE: On her Senate Judiciary financial disclosure Limtiaco reported assets of $1.05 million, mostly from five real estate properties, and liabilities of $386,800, mostly from two mortgages, for a net worth of $667,500. On her Office of Government Ethics financial disclosure she reported her salary for nearly two years as attorney general was $176,540.

President Barack Obama made four U.S. Attorney nominations on Wednesday, the White House announced late last night.

They are:

Laura Duffy (voiceofsandiego.org)

Wifredo Ferrer (gov)

-Laura Duffy (Southern District of California): The Assistant U.S. Attorney, who has worked in the Southern District since 1997, would replace interim U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt, who has led the office since Carol Lam was forced out during the 2006 U.S. Attorney purge. Read more about Duffy here.

-Wifredo Ferrer (Southern District of Florida): The assistant Dade County, Fla., attorney and deputy chief of staff to then-Attorney General Janet Reno would succeed R. Alexander Acosta as the next presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney. Acosta stepped down last summer, and his first deputy, Jeffrey H. Sloman, became acting U.S. Attorney. Sloman was appointed U.S. Attorney in January by U.S. Attorney Eric Holder and continues to lead the office pending confirmation of a new U.S. Attorney.

Read more about the nominee here.

Alicia Limtiaco (UCLA)

-Alicia Limtiaco (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands): The Guam attorney general would replace U.S. Attorney Leonardo Rapadas, who has led the territories’ offices since 2003. Read more about her here.

John B. Stevens Jr. (Lamar University)

-John B. Stevens Jr. (Eastern District of Texas): The Jefferson County, Texas, judge would succeed Rebecca Gregory, who resigned last May. Stevens and a U.S. Attorney finalist for the Western District of Texas are the only candidates for the state’s four U.S. Attorney posts who received the backing of the Texas House Democrats and the state’s Republican senators in a tense battle over recommendations. Read more about Stevens here.

Obama has now made 50 U.S. Attorney nominations. The Senate has confirmed 34 U.S. Attorneys thus far.

Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) recommended to the White House that her territory’s attorney general be the new U.S. Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marianas Variety Guam Edition reported last week.

Alicia Limtiaco (UCLA)

Guam attorney general Alicia Limtiaco was forwarded to the White House in June for consideration, a “confidential source” told the newspaper. She would replace U.S. Attorney Leonardo Rapadas, a holdover from the George W. Bush administration. Rapadas has held the post since 2003.

A spokesperson for Bordallo declined to comment to Main Justice. The chief of staff for Northern Mariana Islands Del. Gregorio “Kilili” Sablan (I) also declined to comment to Main Justice.

Limtiaco became the Guam attorney general in 2007. She is the second person to be elected to the position, which was a gubernatorial appointment prior to 2002. Read an op-ed piece here questioning whether Limtiaco’s representation of Guam in cases against the federal government is problematic for her appointment.

This post has been updated from an earlier version.