Today’s Uniontown (Pa.) Herald Standard has this adoring profile of Third Circuit nominee Rebecca Haywood by Pat Cloonan. The main sources are childhood friends, neighbors, and teachers, including a classmate who also became a lawyer:

“I think she has the intellect and temperament to be an outstanding appellate judge,” said Dan Sinclair, a partner in the Ecker[t] Seamans law firm who graduated with Haywood in 1986. “We had a lot of the same classes, and some activities. I hope the United States Senate considers her and confirms her quickly.”

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Sinclair recalled Haywood being valedictorian of the Class of 1986.

“I can’t think of very many people I have met in this profession who are more qualified or more suited to be a federal appellate judge than she is,” Sinclair said. “Her work experience and her background make her very well suited for that.”

Neat story.