[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 120 (Monday, July 14, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4331-S4332]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 NOMINATION OF WHITNEY D. HERMANDORFER

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam President, this is such a significant day. In 
just a few minutes, this Chamber will vote to confirm Ms. Whitney 
Hermandorfer to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth 
Circuit.
  She is the very first judicial nomination of President Trump's second 
term, and there is a good reason that the President selected Ms. 
Hermandorfer for the circuit court.
  There is no one more qualified to take on this important role as an 
appellate judge for our great Nation.
  Now, a little bit about her background. She is a Tennessee native. 
She attended Nashville's Harpeth Hall School, and she was an 
outstanding athlete and an outstanding student at the Harpeth Hall 
School, which, as an educational institution, has a really long history 
of producing and graduating remarkable women. And Ms. Hermandorfer is 
one of those.
  She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, and she was first in 
her law school class at GWU.
  And it will not surprise my colleagues to learn that Ms. 
Hermandorfer's career has been a stellar career. After graduating from 
law school, she was an associate at Williams & Connolly, where her 
practice focused on appellate litigation and regulatory and 
administrative law.
  She also clerked for four Federal judges, including three Supreme 
Court Justices: Justice Alito, Justice Barrett, and then Judge 
Kavanaugh when he was on the DC Circuit. Since 2003, she has served as 
director of the strategic litigation unit in the Office of Tennessee 
Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti.
  In that role, she has not only been an aggressive attorney, she has 
led a team of talented attorneys in the AG's office, fighting to 
protect the constitutional rights of Tennesseans. There is no doubt 
that she will serve our Nation admirably on the Sixth Circuit. She will 
be a tireless advocate for our Constitution.
  She will show respect for the rule of law. She will show respect for 
the Constitution as it is written. She will not

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be a judge who will try to rewrite it. She is eminently qualified to 
serve, and I urge all my colleagues to vote to confirm her nomination.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant executive clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. MORAN. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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