MAY. 10 1:16 P.M. ET - Judge J. Michael Luttig resigned Wednesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to accept a job as senior vice president and general counsel for Boeing Co.
Luttig, a conservative judge, had been named to the federal bench former President Bush in 1991 and mentioned last year as a possible nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
"This opportunity just came out of the blue," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his Northern Virginia court chambers. "I was not looking to leave the court, and did not expect to leave the court. After considering it, it seemed an opportunity we could not forego." |