PROVIDENCE — In a special session that was long on praise but short on debate, the Senate reconvened yesterday to approve a spate of appointments that included judges, magistrates and a new state fire marshal.

The unusual one-day session lasted less than an hour, and senators had nothing but kind words for their appointees. Their votes were unanimous.

The full Senate session came a day after the Judiciary Committee met to review the list of candidates.

The names and positions of the newly appointed are:

•Anthony Capraro Jr., District Court judge. Capraro, chief of the trial division for the public defender’s office, will replace retired Judge Patricia D. Moore.

•Robert M. Ferrieri, Workers’ Compensation Court judgeship. Ferrieri is a partner in the Providence law firm of Lombardi & Ferrieri, where he concentrates in workers’ compensation, real-estate closings and personal-injury cases.

•Colleen M. Hastings, Family Court magistrate on the “truancy calendar.” Hastings, who is a part-time assistant legal counsel to Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport, will replace Mary E. McCaffrey, a sister of Senate Judiciary Chairman Michael J. McCaffrey, D-Warwick. Mary McCaffrey recently became a District Court judge.

•Armando O. Monaco II, Family Court magistrate. He will replace George N. DiMuro as a magistrate in the “child support/reciprocal court.”

•George N. DiMuro, Family Court administrative magistrate in “child support/reciprocal court.” He will replace Debra E. DiSegna, who recently became a Family Court judge.

•John Chartier, state fire marshal. Chartier, the former chief of the Warwick Fire Department, will replace Frank Sylvester, who left the position in February to return to his prior job as fire chief in Lincoln’s Lime Rock Fire District.

•Ronald J. Pagliarini, Family Court administrator. Pagliarini, now the Family Court chief of staff, will replace F. Charles Haigh, who retired July 31.

•Bradford Kopp will serve as a member of the Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission.

Notably absent from the list that the Senate considered yesterday were six Carcieri nominees to the board that oversees the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, which operates the state’s Central Landfill, in Johnston.

In March, after controversies and a preliminary audit signaling possible mismanagement and corruption at the corporation, Carcieri nominated new members: environmental consultant Carole Bell, former state Republican Party Chairman Bradford Gorham, Douglas C. Jeffrey Sr., retired state police Maj. Michael P. Quinn, retired Lincoln Town Administrator Sue Sheppard and Woonsocket Councilman John F. Ward were all slated for review at Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary hearing.

But the committee refused to review the candidates at the directive of Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano, who, in a letter to the governor a day earlier, accused Carcieri of failing to consider recommendations from affected groups and considering incinerating garbage despite long-standing opposition by many Rhode Islanders.

Montalbano made no mention of the Resource Recovery candidates during yesterday’s session.

cneedham@projo.com