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By Jessica Wehrman, Staff Writer Updated 10:34 AM Tuesday, July 7, 2009

WASHINGTON — Ohio’s two U.S. senators have asked President Barack Obama to send a Cincinnati-based magistrate judge to the federal bench.

U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich Monday, July 6, recommended Timothy Black for the vacancy in U.S. District Court for the state’s southern district. The decision makes Black, a U.S. magistrate judge for the Southern District of Ohio since 2004, the likely nominee for the vacancy created when Judge Sandra Beckwith decided to move to senior status, a quasi-retirement role.

Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas judge Mary Wiseman was one of the finalists, along with Jeffery Hopkins, a judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Ohio.

“Judge Black is exceptionally well-qualified,” Wiseman said Monday. “I wish Judge Black all the best as he goes forward in the process.”

Before serving as magistrate, Black spent 10 years on the Hamilton County Municipal Court and served as a partner at Graydon, Head and Ritchey in Cincinnati.

The nomination is based on the recommendation of a 17-member commission assembled by Brown, D-Ohio, and Voinovich, R-Ohio.

The southern district serves Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus as well as 48 Ohio counties. Appointments to the federal bench are for life.

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What Wiseman does in his personal time is no one's business? Just who are you trying to kid? Everytime the activitist judge's mouth opens the word "lesbian" comes roaring out, from campaign literature to debates. Fine. Shout it from the rooftops, if you want. Wiseman's car even proclaims it on the bumpersticker. Now just don't complain where all this has got this flaming example of homosexual extremism.

bob
2:42 PM, 7/7/2009

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To what a crock:
My rants, as you call them, can be backed up by researching the decisions of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. There you will find volumes of decisions that support the notion that judges use the bench to further their agenda. My disdain is for judges that think imposing their views on society is the right thing to do.

William
12:48 PM, 7/7/2009

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William: Your rants and observations are all spoken in generalities. It is apparent your disdain for homosexuals. You just run at the mouth with no justifiable facts to support your rhetoric. You are pathethic.

what a crock
12:29 PM, 7/7/2009

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For all you heterophobes, the days of your "victim" status will soon cease to exist. The simple fact is ALL activists judges taint their decisions on their perceived opinions that a class or race of people are or have been "unfairly" treated and use their position on the bench to "right" those "wrongs" by using "compassion and empathy" Those traits have no place on the bench. Apply the law, not your emotions or "feelings". You want to be an activist, fine, but don't do it from the bench.

William
11:08 AM, 7/7/2009

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I never believed "justice was blind.' What about the racist judges on the bench that continue to show unfair sentencing practices among minorities (namely, Blacks and Hispanics and people who live in poverty).

The game is electing people to support/protect interest. Everyone does this, but minorities because they don't know how the game is played, and have limited economic/social interest to protect as a whole (so they have been tricked into believing).

Again, keep going Mary Wiseman!

I like her
10:02 AM, 7/7/2009

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