White House Sends 16 Nominations to the Senate, Withdraws Earlier Nominee for the Same Eighth Circuit Seat
The White House announced on November 10 that it has sent a new batch of 16 nominations to the Senate, covering a federal appellate judge, ambassadors, Treasury and Defense officials, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center and the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. On the same day, the White House withdrew its earlier nominee for one of the judicial seats in the batch.
On the judicial side, James Cody Hiland of Arkansas was nominated to be a United States circuit judge for the Eighth Circuit, succeeding Bobby E. Shepherd, who is retiring. Bernard Michael Desrosiers of the District of Columbia was nominated to be an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for a 15-year term, succeeding Hiram E. Puig-Lugo, who has retired. Julia Diaz-Rex of Puerto Rico was nominated to be United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico for a four-year term.
Five nominees were named as ambassadors: Mikhail Bogachek to the Republic of Kosovo, John Burns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pedro Cabrera to the Republic of Guatemala, Matthew Millhollin to the Sultanate of Oman, and William Stephens to Papua New Guinea, to serve concurrently as ambassador to the Solomon Islands and to Vanuatu.
The remaining nominations include Mark Aesch as Federal Transit Administrator, Hugo Dante Jr. as director of the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research for a six-year term, Rebekah Jurata as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel Zimmerman as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in a new position, Joseph Weirsky as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Andreas Borgeas as a member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission for a term expiring September 30, 2028. Peter A. Feldman received two nominations: to be chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, succeeding Alexander Hoehn-Saric, who resigned, and to be reappointed a commissioner for a seven-year term beginning October 27, 2026.
In a withdrawal notice sent the same day, the White House withdrew the nomination of Lee Philip Rudofsky to be a circuit judge for the Eighth Circuit, which had been sent to the Senate on September 14, 2026. The seat is the same one for which Hiland was nominated in this batch. All of the nominations require Senate confirmation before they take effect.
Source: The White House
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