Three nominees picked for D.C. court vacancy

Three people have been nominated by the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission to fill a judicial vacancy on the D.C. Superior Court.

The commission submitted for the consideration of President Bush the names of Teresa A. Howie, 50, a veteran prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in the District; Stuart Nash, 43, director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program at the U.S. Department of Justice; and Maribeth Raffinan, 38, a supervising attorney in the trial division of the D.C. Public Defender Service.