A federal district judge in Montgomery, Alabama, is in line to replace Chief Judge Ed Carnes on the  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit when he takes senior status.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Judge Andrew L. Brasher of the Middle District Alabama would join the Atlanta-based court hearing cases from Florida, Georgia and Alabama. A website for the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts lists Carnes' seat as a "future vacancy."

Brasher became a district judge just six months ago after he was nominated by President Donald Trump. He clerked for Circuit Judge William Pryor of Alabama, served as Alabama solicitor general and worked on complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense in the Birmingham office of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings.

Judge Kevin Newsom of the Eleventh Circuit also worked for Bradley Arant.

The progressive Washington-based Alliance for Justice opposed his nomination to the district bench, saying he has a record of opposing rights for women, people of color and LGBTQ communities, as well as reproductive, consumer, worker and environmental protection.

The nomination announcement Wednesday came three weeks after Trump nominated Florida Supreme Court Justices Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck to Eleventh Circuit openings. Both were elevated this year from the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami. Both await floor votes following Senate Judiciary Committee approval.

If confirmed, the Eleventh Circuit bench would switch to a majority of judges nominated by Republican presidents.

Brasher, Lagoa and Luck have Federalist Society backing.

The White House's latest round of nominations for vacancies on federal courts included candidates for judicial seats in New York, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Arizona, Missouri, the District of Columbia and  U.S. Tax Court.

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