President Barack Obama has renominated Shelly Deckert Dick to fill a vacancy on the federal bench in Baton Rouge. Dick, a Baton Rouge attorney, originally was nominated in April 2012. She is one of 33 candidates for federal judgeships who were renominated Thursday by Obama. Dick answered questions before a Senate panel last month, but the full Senate did not vote on her nomination before the conclusion of the 112th Congress. The president says in a statement that many of the nominations “could have and should have been confirmed” before the Senate adjourned. Dick was nominated to fill the seat in the Middle District of Louisiana left vacant by the death of Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson. She is a founding partner at the Baton Rouge law firm of Forrester & Dick.
Local lawyer renominated for federal judgeship in Baton Rouge
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