The White House sent 41 nominations to the Senate on September 14, 2026, covering federal courts, the United States Sentencing Commission, diplomatic assignments and senior executive positions. The slate includes 12 nominees for United States district judgeships, one circuit court nominee, one nominee for the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and two Sentencing Commission reappointments.
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.
Lee Philip Rudofsky was nominated to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit. James Lewis Quinn was selected for a 15-year term as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Claire McCusker Murray and Luis Felipe Restrepo were nominated for reappointment to the United States Sentencing Commission for terms expiring October 31, 2031.
The administration also nominated Hung Cao for Secretary of the Navy, William Toti for Under Secretary of the Navy and Richard Breckenridge for Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Other departmental selections include Francis Browne for Under Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Stebbins for Treasury general counsel, Jeremy Wiggins for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Heidi Overton for Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Christopher Abbott for Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Matthew Jones for Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Anny Vu for Assistant Secretary of State for Emerging Threats.
Diplomatic nominees include Kimberly Greenwood for Barbados and, concurrently without additional compensation, six other Caribbean nations; Austin Holmes for Haiti; Wesley Hunt for Saudi Arabia; Devin Kennington for Somalia; Junaid Munir for Djibouti; Paul Watzlavick for Suriname; Asa Pitt as the United States representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with the rank of ambassador; and Jane Lynch as ambassador at large for international religious freedom.
Additional nominations include Elliott Hulse for chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Stephen Husk for a six-year term on the United States Parole Commission; Catherine Eschbach for a four-year term as Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel; Joshua Shoemaker for NASA chief financial officer; Christopher Walter Inabinett for a four-year term as United States marshal for the Middle District of Alabama; and Samuel King Lee and Simon Peter Serrano for four-year terms as United States attorneys for the Eastern District of Tennessee and Western District of Washington, respectively.