The White House has nominated DeKalb County State Court Judge Dax Lopez, a Republican, to fill the final open slot on the federal bench in the Northern District of Georgia.

The White House made the announcement Thursday afternoon. Lopez has been a state court judge since 2010. When Georgia Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed Lopez to the DeKalb bench, he was 34—the youngest judge on the county’s state court bench and only the second Latino judge in the state.

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