Ms. Bellucci, 56, a registered nurse and social worker, oversaw cases.
Before that, Ms. Martirano ran the Special Prosecutions Division, which oversaw cases relating to domestic violence, child and elder abuse, sex crimes, stalking and special crime victims.
A deputy chief justice in the Supreme Court of Ingushetia, she often oversaw cases involving crimes carried out by violent Islamic separatist groups active in the region, said Kaloi S. Akhilgov, a spokesman for Ingushetia's president, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.
Garland formerly clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice William Brennan and also served in the US Attorney General's office, where he oversaw cases including against Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.
Ms. Magner is just one of many judges overseeing cases involving troubled borrowers, of course.
Norheim was transferred from guardianship court to dependency court, where he now oversees cases involving abused and neglected children.
At least one firm already does appear to scrutinize arbitrators chosen to oversee cases in which it is involved.
The proposed terms were filed on Wednesday with the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh, which is overseeing cases of nearly 300 Countrywide borrowers in foreclosure in western Pennsylvania.
A senior assistant district attorney will be assigned to oversee cases in each, and will work with community affairs workers, investigators and intelligence analysts to address problems, Mr. Vance said.
In another incident, Ms. Bush was discovered on June 19 to have been "off property without permission," said Randy Means, executive director of the Orange-Osceola state attorney's office, which oversees cases in the region assigned to Florida drug court.
