DOVER, Del. (AP) - The Delaware Senate has unanimously approved Gov. Jack Markell's nominations to fill vacancies on the state Supreme Court and Superior Court.
Senators on Wednesday confirmed Collins Seitz Jr. to succeed retired Supreme Court Justice Henry DuPont Ridgely. They also approved Jeffrey Clark, a Kent County lawyer, state Public Service Commission member, and former Senate attorney, for a Superior Court judgeship.
The votes came after friendly vettings by the Senate Executive Committee.
The 57-year-old Seitz has spent more than three decades specializing in corporate, commercial, and intellectual property cases.
As a Chancery Court judge, Seitz's father, who also served on the Delaware Supreme Court and a federal appeals court, issued a groundbreaking 1952 ruling that became part of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case.
