Senator Marsha Blackburn Advocates for Judicial Nominee Whitney Hermandorfer

Nomination of Whitney Hermandorfer

• 🏛️ Whitney Hermandorfer is nominated to serve as a circuit judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
• 🌟 She is highlighted as the first judicial nomination of President Trump's second term.

Whitney Hermandorfer's Qualifications and Background

• 🎓 A Tennessee native, Hermandorfer attended Harpath Hall School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton.
• ⚖️ She was first in her law school class at GWU and focused her legal practice on appellate litigation and regulatory/administrative law.
• 🧑‍⚖️ Her judicial experience includes clerking for four federal judges, including three Supreme Court justices: Alito, Barrett, and then-Judge Kavanaugh.

Role as Director of Strategic Litigation

• 🛡️ Since 2003, she has served as the director of the strategic litigation unit in the Tennessee Attorney General's office.
• ✊ In this role, she has led a team fighting to protect the constitutional rights of Tennesseans.

Expected Judicial Philosophy

• 📜 Hermandorfer is expected to be a tireless advocate for the Constitution as it is written.
• 🚫 She is not anticipated to be a judge who will try to rewrite the Constitution.
• ✅ She is deemed eminently qualified to serve on the Sixth Circuit.