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White House sends Senate a new round of nominations for judges, ambassadors and senior posts
The U.S. administration submitted nominees to the Senate for federal courts, executive branch positions and diplomatic assignments. The list also includes reappointments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
The White House said it has sent the Senate a new slate of nominations covering judicial posts, diplomatic assignments and senior executive branch jobs.
According to the official release, the district court nominees are Samuel D. Adkisson for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Philip Axt for the District of North Dakota, Daniel Lewis Ballou for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Richard Wesley Bennett for the Southern District of Texas, Courtney Leigh Coker for the Northern District of Texas, Bradford J. Kelley and Peter M. Mansfield for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Robert E. Long Jr. for the Middle District of Florida, Jesus A. Osete for the Western District of Missouri, Trevor Scott Pemberton for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Kyle Frederick Reardon for the District of Alaska and Zachary Paul West for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The package also includes Lee Philip Rudofsky for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and James Lewis Quinn for a 15-year term on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
The White House said Claire McCusker Murray and Luis Felipe Restrepo were nominated again to serve on the United States Sentencing Commission, with terms set to expire on October 31, 2031.
Among the executive branch picks are Christopher Abbott as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Richard Breckenridge as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Francis Browne as Under Secretary of the Treasury, Hung Cao as Secretary of the Navy, Catherine Eschbach as General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Heidi Overton as Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Senate also received nominations for Elliott Hulse as chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Stephen Husk as a commissioner of the U.S. Parole Commission, Matthew Jones as an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Joshua Shoemaker as chief financial officer of NASA, Robert Stebbins as General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, William Toti as Under Secretary of the Navy and Jeremy Wiggins as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
On the diplomatic front, the White House nominated Kimberly Greenwood as ambassador to Barbados, with concurrent accreditation to Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Austin Holmes to Haiti; Wesley Hunt to Saudi Arabia; Devin Kennington to Somalia; Junaid Munir to Djibouti; Asa Pitt as U.S. representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with the rank of ambassador; and Paul Watzlavick to Suriname.
The list further includes Samuel King Lee as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Simon Peter Serrano as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Christopher Walter Inabinett as U.S. Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama, Jane Lynch as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom and Anny Vu as Assistant Secretary of State for Emerging Threats.
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