Judge Julie Carnes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Judge Julie Carnes sent a letter to President Donald Trump Friday saying she plans to retire June 18.

“I have attained the age and met the service requirements,” Carnes said in her letter to the president announcing her retirement intentions. She said that on May 29 of this year, she will have served 26 years as an active federal judge. She has been on the Eleventh Circuit since President Barack Obama appointed her in 2014. Judge Jill Pryor joined the court at the same time.

Carnes was a U.S. District Court judge for the Northern District of Georgia from 1992 until 2014.

“Further, I intend to continue to render substantial judicial service as a senior judge,” Carnes told Trump.

Carnes was a commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission from 1990 to 1996 and an assistant U.S. attorney from 1978 to 1990. She clerked for Fifth Circuit Judge Lewis Morgan after graduating from the University of Georgia law school.

The retirement will give the president another position to fill on the Eleventh Circuit. If he chooses another Georgia appellate judge to fill the job—and he just did with newly commissioned Judge Elizabeth Branch, who stepped up from the Georgia Court of Appeals—the change could also give Gov. Nathan Deal another appointment to a state court.

Deal is already about to fill three jobs on the Georgia Court of Appeals to replace Branch as well as Judge Tripp Self, who has already moved to a federal position with the Middle District of Georgia, and Judge Billy Ray, who is waiting for confirmation to a nomination for the Northern District of Georgia.

Whether Trump taps another Georgia appellate judge for Carnes' spot—and gives Deal another vacancy to fill—remains to be seen.