[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 119 (Thursday, July 10, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4304]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                 Nomination of Whitney D. Hermandorfer

  Mr. HAGERTY. Mr. President, I am here today to urge my colleagues to 
support the confirmation of Whitney Hermandorfer. Whitney Hermandorfer 
is President Trump's nominee to be a judge on the Sixth Circuit.
  This is a defining moment for the second Trump administration because 
Whitney is the first judicial nominee to be brought forward to serve at 
the circuit court level. She is the first Trump nominee to come before 
the U.S. Senate, and she is a perfect candidate to be that first 
nominee.
  She is going to set the benchmark for excellence for all future 
judicial nominees. Indeed, I don't think President Trump could have 
made a better choice.
  Ms. Hermandorfer is eminently qualified. She graduated first in her 
law school class. Then she clerked on the district court for DC, the DC 
Circuit, and, not once but twice, at the Supreme Court of the United 
States.
  Whitney served as lead strategist and advocate for our home State of 
Tennessee, representing the Volunteer State in its most complex and 
important cases, and, unsurprisingly to everybody that knew her and 
knows her, she did an exceptional job.
  Ms. Hermandorfer has the experience and the demeanor that our very 
best judges possess, along with a genuine humility, kindness, and a 
sense of optimism that I think everybody will appreciate.
  Most important, Ms. Hermandorfer will faithfully discharge the solemn 
duties of a judge. She will interpret the Constitution according to its 
original meaning. She will administer justice without fear, without 
favor. She will rule without preference for the poor or the rich, the 
weak or the powerful. She will protect the precious rights recognized 
in the Constitution and safeguard the delicate separation of powers 
that our Founders established.
  Whitney Hermandorfer is an outstanding nominee. Any delay in 
confirming her deprives our courts of the very best and the very 
brightest that our Nation can offer.
  So I am here today to urge my colleagues to support her nomination on 
today's procedural vote, and I am going to encourage this body to 
quickly proceed to her confirmation.