President Donald Trump on May 1 unveiled his first judicial nomination since returning to the White House as he moved to appoint Whitney Hermandorfer, a lawyer serving under the Tennessee attorney general, to a seat on a federal appeals court.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was nominating Hermandorfer to serve as a judge on the Cincinnati-based Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which hears cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.
The position became available after Karla M. Campbell, former President Joe Biden’s nominee to the appeals court, failed to secure confirmation before Biden left office….