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The Whitehouse just sent notice that President Barack Obama have nominated Judge Ripley Rand to be U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina. From the release:

WASHINGTON, DC- Today, President Obama nominated Ripley Eagles Rand and M. Scott Bowen to serve as U.S. Attorneys.

 “I am proud to nominate these outstanding individuals to serve as United States Attorneys,” said President Obama. “They will be unwavering in their pursuit of justice and I am confident they will serve the people of North Carolina and Michigan with distinction.”

 Ripley Eagles Rand, Nominee for United States Attorney, Middle District of North Carolina

Ripley Rand is a Superior Court Judge for the State of North Carolina, a position he has held since 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Rand worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Tenth Prosecutorial District of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002 and in the Twelfth Prosecutorial District in 1997. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Rand was a judicial clerk for the Honorable James A. Beaty, Jr., United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina. Following law school, he was a research assistant for the Honorable Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, from 1995 to 1996. Mr. Rand graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1990 and the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1995.

Rand is the son of state Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, a Fayetteville Democrat.