The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm three nominees to serve as federal judges in New York.

The bipartisan slate, which easily cleared final confirmation votes Thursday afternoon, included U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner Lewis Liman for the Southern District of New York, as well as Gary Richard Brown, a Brooklyn federal magistrate judge, to serve in the Eastern District.

Vyscocil and Liman, both nominated by President Donald Trump, were approved by tallies of 91-3 and 64-29, respectively. Brown, who was originally nominated by President Barack Obama, passed on a voice vote.

The confirmations brought to a close what had been a long and winding confirmation process for all three candidates, who will now finally take their seats on the federal bench.

Announced in May 2018 as part of Trump's 14th wave of judicial nominees, they cleared the Judiciary Committee but did not receive a final approval in the full Senate before the last Congress ended. Trump renominated the prospective judges in April.

Liman comes to the bench from Cleary Gottlieb in New York, where he focused on complex commercial litigation and earned $2.8 million in partnership income in 2017, according to financial disclosure records.

While with the firm, Liman represented a number of high-profile clients in litigation and investigations, including Bank of America in its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in matters related to Bernard Madoff's fraud and Petroleo Brasileiro, also known as Petrobras, Brazil's national oil company, in securities litigation arising out of a bribery investigation in that country.

He also reported a net worth of $37.7 million, a figure that the New York Law Journal reported was significantly higher than other law firm partners Trump nominated for federal judgeships in 2017.

Vyskocil and Brown, meanwhile, both currently serve as judges in the districts they were nominated to join.

Appointed to the bankruptcy bench in 2016, Vyskocil is a former attorney with Simpson Thacher, where she practiced general commercial litigation for more than 30 years. A 1980 graduate of St. John's University School of Law, she made partner in 1991 and handled an array of commercial cases, including insurance and reinsurance disputes, contract and tort issues, bankruptcy-related issues, securities and antitrust law.

She also represented major insurers in coverage litigation in a variety of contexts, including environmental, asbestos, breast implants and other mass tort claims.

Across the East River, Brown has served as a magistrate judge in the Eastern District since 2011.

In 2014, he was selected to serve on the committee of magistrate judges that handled the more than 1,400 cases filed in Brooklyn in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Prior to joining the bench, Brown was director of litigation and chief compliance officer of CA Technologies—the same firm where the current U.S. attorney in the Eastern District, Richard Donoghue, worked just before his appointment. He is also an alum of the Brooklyn federal prosecutor's office, where he served as chief of the Long Island Criminal Division.

A former nominee of President Barack Obama, Brown was first selected to serve as a judge in 2015, but his nomination went unresolved in the Senate before Obama left office in January 2017.

Prior to the confirmations of Vyskocil and Liman, the Southern District was operating with six official vacancies, according to the U.S. Courts. Trump last month nominated two more candidates—John Cronan and Iris Lan—to serve as Southern DIstrict judges.

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