From Mail-Server@lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu  Sat Aug  7 22:50:10 1993
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 21:42-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: Statement of Vice President Gore on Judge Daughtrey  8/7/93

                         THE WHITE HOUSE
                   OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
_________________________________________________________________

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE               CONTACT:  Marla Romash
                                              202-456-7035

               STATEMENT OF VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE

     President Clinton has chosen an outstanding person in 
nominating Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey to the U.S. Court of 
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  She is an excellent justice and a 
good friend who I respect and admire professionally and 
personally.

     Cissy and I are long-time friends from Tennessee.  She is  
fair-minded, hard-working, and dedicated to the law and to the 
integrity of the judicial system.  As a lawyer, judge, university 
professor, and the first woman justice on the state's Supreme 
Court, Cissy has served Tennessee with distinction and honor.  
She also is a dedicated wife and mother.

     Cissy is a leader among her colleagues and in her community.  
Throughout her career, she has made a determined effort to help 
others, particularly through her work on court reform and to 
promote women and minorities in the legal profession.  Her career 
also has been marked by many firsts:  She was the first woman 
prosecutor in Tennessee, the first woman tenure-track professor 
at the Vanderbilt University Law School, and the first and only 
woman to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court.   

     To whatever she does, Cissy brings skill, intelligence, 
determination, and compassion.  For all of these reasons and 
more, I believe Cissy will do an outstanding job as a judge on 
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  I am proud of 
her accomplishments, and I strongly support her nomination.

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