The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s first judicial nominee of his second term, a notably slower pace than at the same point in his first term or former President Joe Biden’s. The Senate voted 46-42 to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

President Donald Trump secured approval of his first judicial nominee of his second term, as the U.S. Senate confirmed a former law clerk to three members of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority to a seat on a federal appeals court.

Hermandorfer previously served as director of strategic litigation for the Tennessee AG, where she defended several Trump policies.