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Excerpt from rapidcityjournal.comFor the first time since 2021, South Dakota will have a full roster of federal district judges.
Eric Schulte was officially confirmed by a vote of 61-33 in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday in Washington, clearing the way for the Sioux Falls lawyer to take the bench with a lifetime appointment in South Dakota’s U.S. District Court.
Camela Theeler, a state circuit court judge in Sioux Falls, is scheduled for a Senate vote Thursday, with all signs pointing to confirmation. She was recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 20-1.
“This was a smooth confirmation process with strong bipartisan support,” Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond (Va.) law professor who studies federal judicial nominations, told News Watch.
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