U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York at the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Courthouse on 225 Cadman Plaza East in the civic center of Brooklyn.

The U.S. Senate voted almost unanimously late Wednesday to confirm Rachel Kovner as a district judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York—but Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, cast one of the three votes opposing Kovner's confirmation.

Kovner, who has worked in the Office of the Solicitor General in Washington, D.C., and in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, was nominated by President Donald Trump in May 2018.

She clerked for then-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and for Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit after graduating from Stanford Law School.

Kovner fills one of five empty seats for district judges on the Eastern District's 15-member bench, a situation the federal Judicial Conference has designated as a judicial emergency. Trump has nominated candidates for three more of the seats, but they are waiting to be confirmed by the Senate.

Gillibrand's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.