Jeffrey L. Schmehl: Confirmed!

This afternoon, the United States Senate held a vote on two of President Obama's nominees for Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, and Berks County's own, Jeffrey L. Schmehl. 

In November of last year, Senators Toomey and Casey identified Judges Quiñones and Schmehl as part of a bipartisan package of three nominees submitted to the President for consideration.  Nearly seven months later, the Senators took to the podium and encouraged their colleagues to vote for confirmation.  Senator Casey extolled the nominees' experience and temperament, and praised Judge Schmehl for laboring for 15 years in the "vineyards" of the judicial system.