President Donald Trump announced a new slate of judicial nominees late Wednesday, including two tied to Connecticut—Assistant U.S. Attorney William J. Nardini, to serve as a circuit judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and New London Superior Court Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed, to join the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Nardini currently serves as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Connecticut and on advisory committees for the U.S. attorney general's Criminal Chiefs Working Group and the U.S. District Court in Connecticut. From 2010 to 2014, he served as the Department of Justice attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

A Fulbright Scholar in Italy in 1998, Nardini clerked for Judge Jose A. Cabranes and Judge Guido Calabresi, both of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Before joining the bench at New London Superior Court in 2000, Jongbloed served as an assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the criminal division in the Connecticut U.S. Attorney's Office. She clerked for U.S. District Judge T.F. Gilroy Daly of District of Connecticut and earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Additional nominees announced by the White House Wednesday include the following:

  • Danielle J. Hunsaker of Oregon, to serve as circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
  • Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
  • Adam L. Braverman, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
  • U.S. Magistrate Judge Silvia Carreno-Coll, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
  • Assistant U.S. Attorney John M. Gallagher, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  • Orange County, California, Superior Court Judge Sandy Nunes Leal, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
  • Jones Day partner Shireen Matthews of California, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
  • Jenner & Block partner Rick Richmond of California, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
  • Traynor Law Firm shareholder Daniel Mack Traynor of North Dakota, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota.
  • Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Cory T. Wilson, to serve as Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
  • U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith of New York, to serve as Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
  • National Security Council deputy legal adviser Scott J. Laurer of Virginia, to serve as Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
  • Former Department of Labor inspector general's director of investigations Robert A. Dixon of Washington, D.C., to serve as U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.