Georgia’s U.S. senators—through their advisory committee on federal nominations—are soliciting applications for a newly open federal judicial post in the Southern District of Georgia in Savannah.

U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr.’s decision to take senior status Feb. 28 brings to four the number of available federal judicial posts in Georgia for the Trump White House to fill. Moore, 76, was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994. He attracted international attention in 2010 when he presided over an extraordinary federal hearing ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court following a habeas appeal on the death penalty sentence of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the murder of a Savannah police officer.

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