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Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today, the Senate will vote to confirm Mustafa Kasubhai to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.
Judge Kasubhai received his B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law before working as a reference librarian at the University of Oregon School of Law Library. He then entered private practice in Eugene, where he specialized in workers' compensation cases and personal injury law. From 2003 to 2007, he served on the Oregon Workers' Compensation Board, where he reviewed workers' compensation appeals of administrative law judges' final orders for work-related injury claims involving Oregon employers.
In 2007, Judge Kasubhai was appointed to the Oregon State Circuit Court in Lane County by then-Governor Theodore Kulongoski. He was reelected to a 6-year term in 2014. As a State court judge, he presided over judicial settlement conferences, appeals from administrative and municipal courts, and matters involving civil, criminal, family, and juvenile cases. Since 2018, Judge Kasubhai has served as a magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in Eugene. During his time on the bench, he has handled a wide variety of both civil and criminal matters, and he has presided over four jury trials as a magistrate judge.
Judge Kasubhai has deep ties to Oregon and enjoys the strong support of both of his home State Senators, Mr. Wyden and Mr. Merkley. The American Bar Association unanimously rated him as ``well qualified'' to serve on the District of Oregon, and in a letter supporting Judge Kasubhai's nomination, a former chief judge of the District of Oregon praised him as ``the very soul of fairness,'' a tribute to his judicial temperament.
Judge Kasubhai's litigation background and his courtroom experience as an advocate, State court judge, and magistrate judge ensure that he will continue to be an asset to the district court. I am proud to support his nomination, and I urge my colleagues to join me.
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