Senate Confirms Whitney Hermandorfer as First Federal Judge of Trump’s 2nd Term

The U.S. Senate on July 14 confirmed Whitney Hermandorfer to a job in the federal courts, marking the first approval of one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees during his second term. The 46–42 vote in the upper chamber to confirm Hermandorfer to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit fell along strict party lines. The 37-year-old attorney is among the youngest ever confirmed to the federal bench. “She is the very first judicial nomination of President Trump’s second term, and there is a good reason the president selected Ms. Hermandorfer for the circuit court,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), whose home state of Tennessee is included in the Sixth Circuit, said in a speech on the Senate floor....