President Donald Trump picked an attorney in the Tennessee attorney general's office for a spot on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Whitney Hermandorfer is currently the director of the Strategic Litigation Unit in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. If confirmed by the Senate, she will fill a judicial vacancy left by Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch, who announced in January she was taking senior status. The court is based in Cincinnati and hears cases from Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Michigan.
“The atate of Tennessee has trusted Whitney Hermandorfer over and over with complex cases of national significance. She has never let us down," said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Friday. "Her leadership of Tennessee's Strategic Litigation Unit sets a high bar of excellence at every level of the federal judiciary, all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States."
Kentucky Attorney General Russel Coleman said Hermandorfer has been an advocate.
