Overview

• Whitney Hermandorfer, currently director of the Strategic Litigation Unit in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, has been nominated to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Hermandorfer has clerked for Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett, as well as then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, highlighting her originalist legal background.
• Her nomination aligns with Trump’s broader judicial strategy to reinforce conservative influence in federal courts, a hallmark of his presidency.
• If confirmed by a simple Senate majority, Hermandorfer will join a Sixth Circuit already dominated by Republican-appointed judges.
• Hermandorfer’s litigation record includes challenges to Biden administration policies, such as opposing the Title IX rewrite on gender identity in education.