Law Clerk Addict

Some recent happenings from the Southern District of Texas:

* Judge Samuel Kent (S.D. Tex.), who was sentenced to 33 months incarceration last month for obstruction of justice, has announced that he intends to resign from the bench next June. The ABA Journal reports that Judge Kent has delayed his resignation "because it would take the Senate at least that long to conduct impeachment proceedings."

* Though somewhat overshadowed by his more newsworthy soon-to-be-former colleague, Judge George Kazen (S.D. Tex.) assumed senior status on May 31, 2009, creating a new vacancy for President Obama to fill.

* Thanks to an extremely generous tip (well, more like a minor data dump!), a significant number of law clerks for the 2009-10 term have been input into the database for the Southern District of Texas and the other federal district courts in Texas.