The Senate Judiciary Committee last week unanimously approved the nomination of S.J. Quinney College of Law alum and former Centerville Mayor Ronald Russell to the U.S. District Court for Utah. Russell served as managing editor of the Utah Law Review. He then clerked on the U.S. District Court in Utah for Judge David Winder, after which he joined the law firm of Parr, Brown, Gee and Loveless in Salt Lake City.