 Helms then announced his opposition to Leonard's nomination on the grounds that he had wanted to shift that open seat to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.The Senate also did not hold a hearing or a vote on Leonard's District Court nomination in 1999 or 2000, and the nomination lapsed with the end of Clinton's presidency.Judge Leonard is the current dean of Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law.