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Director of the National Institute of Justice - John H. Laub

Director John H. Laub was confirmed on June 22, 2010.  A hearing to consider the nomination was held on November 18, 2009.  An archived webcast is available.  icon_webcastThe nomination was reported by the Committee on December 3, 2009.

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Responses to Questions Submitted for the Record

  • Questions for the Record:  Senator Tom Coburn

Letters Received in Connection with the Nomination

  • November 24, 2009 - Barry C. Feld, Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
  • November 11, 2009 - Janet Fine, Executive Director, Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance
  • November 10, 2009 - Edward Rhine, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
  • November 9, 2009 - Robert J. Sampson, Chairman & Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, Department of Sociology
  • November 2009 - James Q. Wilson, Emeritus Professor, UCLA
  • October 30, 2009 - Janet L. Lauritsen, Professor, University of Missouri St. Louis, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • October 30, 2009 - Community Resources for Justice
  • October 27, 2009 - Michael Gottfredson, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, University of California, Irvine
  • October 20, 2009 - Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Co-Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Law School
  • October 20, 2009 - Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy Coalition
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Did You Know?  The U.S. Courts of Appeals were the first federal courts designed exclusively to hear cases on appeal from trial courts.  In an effort to relieve the caseload burden in the Supreme Court, and to handle a dramatic increase in federal filings, Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1891, establishing nine courts of appeals, one for each judicial circuit.

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