this is such a significant day. In just a few minutes, this Chamber will vote to confirm Ms. Whitney Hermandorfer to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is the very first judicial nomination of President Trump's second term, and there is a good reason that the President selected Ms. Hermandorfer for the circuit court. There is no one more qualified to take on this important role as an appellate judge for our great Nation. Now, a little bit about her background. She is a Tennessee native. She attended Nashville's Harpeth Hall School, and she was an outstanding athlete and an outstanding student at the Harpeth Hall School, which, as an educational institution, has a really long history of producing and graduating remarkable women. And Ms. Hermandorfer is one of those. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, and she was first in her law school class at GWU. And it will not surprise my colleagues to learn that Ms. Hermandorfer's career has been a stellar career. After graduating from law school, she was an associate at Williams & Connolly, where her practice focused on appellate litigation and regulatory and administrative law. She also clerked for four Federal judges, including three Supreme Court Justices: Justice Alito, Justice Barrett, and then Judge Kavanaugh when he was on the DC Circuit. Since 2003, she has served as director of the strategic litigation unit in the Office of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti.
On the recordJuly 14, 2025
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Speaking in support of the confirmation of Whitney Hermandorfer to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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