WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed one of President Barack Obama’s nominees to be a federal judge in Nebraska.

The 90-0 vote for Nebraska lawyer Robert Rossiter Jr. to a lifetime federal appointment may be one of the last confirmation votes this year. The Senate generally halts approval of judges nominated by a president of the opposing party in the later months of the chief executive’s final year.

Though appointed by Obama, Rossiter was chosen by Nebraska’s Republican senators. Sen. Deb Fischer and former Sen. Mike Johanns recommended him before the president appointed him a year ago.

More than 40 of Obama’s nominees to district courts remain in limbo, as does the president’s choice of Judge Merrick Garland for the vacancy on the Supreme Court after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February.