Reagan Picks Successor for Ousted U.S. Judge
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
President Reagan said Tuesday that he will nominate Philip M. Pro, a U.S. magistrate in Las Vegas, to succeed Harry E. Claiborne, a federal judge who was impeached and removed from office last year.
Pro, 40, has been a federal magistrate since 1980. Before that, he was an assistant U.S. attorney, a deputy Nevada attorney general, a lawyer in private practice and a deputy public defender for Clark County, Nev.
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