Trump Unveils Nominations for 5 Judicial Posts

The nominees include a state solicitor general and three state supreme court justices.

A judges gavel rests on top of a desk in the courtroom in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 3, 2009. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

President Donald Trump on Aug. 12 announced the nomination of five individuals as federal district judges in Alabama and Mississippi.

Among them is Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.