Judges were a significant success during President Donald Trump’s first term, and his initial group of nominees this term indicates he is still committed to winning.

Last week, Trump appointed several judges to the district court in Missouri and the municipal court in Washington, D.C. Earlier this month, he announced Whitney Hermandorfer as his nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Daily Wire reports.

All are solid candidates, but Hermandorfer has attracted the most attention—and with good reason.

She is Trump’s sole Court of Appeals nominee to date. That matters because the Courts of Appeals sit directly below the Supreme Court in the federal judiciary. They handle over 99% of federal litigation, whereas the Supreme Court hears only about 60 cases annually.

Additionally, the Courts of Appeals often serve as a proving ground for higher judicial office—eight of the nine current Supreme Court justices previously sat on a Court of Appeals, the outlet noted further.

Perhaps most importantly, Hermandorfer’s nomination signals that Trump will continue applying the same criteria seen with his first-term judicial nominees: originalists committed to upholding the rule of law, unafraid of the criticism directed at those who challenge the Left’s sacred beliefs.

And that’s what has Democrats concerned, the outlet noted.

As Hermandorfer’s current boss, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, said upon the announcement of her nomination, she is “an absolute rock star” and “perhaps the single most credentialed lawyer in America, having clerked for a full third of the justices on the Supreme Court.”

She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and was at the top of her class at George Washington University Law School, where she also served as editor-in-chief of the George Washington University Law Review. While most lawyers would consider clerking at the Supreme Court the pinnacle for a nominee, Hermandorfer took it a step further.

After clerking for Judge Richard Leon of the D.C. district court, she went on to clerk for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit, followed by clerking at the Supreme Court for Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett. This impressive résumé includes every type of federal clerkship, capped off by an extraordinary double Supreme Court clerkship, noted the Daily Wire.

As Trump highlighted in his Truth Social announcement, Hermandorfer “has a long history of working for Judges and Justices who respect the RULE OF LAW.”