Michael Newbold Castle is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 69th Governor of Delaware from 1985 to 1992 and as the U.S. representative from Delaware's at-large congressional district from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
David Plouffe is an American political and business strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. He is a senior advisor to Kamala Harris’2024 presidential campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant,he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media,which he joined in 2000.
Paul William Hodes is an American lawyer,musician,and former U.S. representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district,serving from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party,and was New Hampshire's first Jewish representative.
Crystal Nix-Hines served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador between July 2014 and January 2017.
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III was an American politician,lawyer,and officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from Wilmington,Delaware. He was the eldest child of President Joe Biden and Neilia Hunter Biden,served as the 44th attorney general of Delaware from 2007 to 2015,and was a major in the Delaware Army National Guard in the Iraq War. He died of glioblastoma at the age of 46 in 2015,at which time he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Delaware in the 2016 gubernatorial election. A portion of the 21st Century Cures Act was named the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative after him.
The 2008 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 4,2008. Incumbent Senator Joe Biden,who was also the Democratic nominee for vice president in the concurrent presidential election,faced Christine O'Donnell in the general election. Biden won re-election to a seventh term with 64.69% of the vote,his best-performing result in his senatorial career,while also being elected vice president. Biden took his oath of office in the Senate chamber with the rest of his colleagues on January 3,2009,but resigned his seat on January 15,2009,and assumed the vice presidency five days later. Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner appointed Ted Kaufman,a Democrat and longtime Biden advisor,to fill the vacant seat pending a 2010 special election in which O'Donnell once again ran unsuccessfully for the seat,losing to Democrat Chris Coons.
Colm Felix Connolly is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. He formerly served as United States Attorney for the District of Delaware.
Joe Biden,the 46th and current president of the United States,has family members who are prominent in law,education,activism and politics. Biden's immediate family became the first family of the United States on his inauguration on January 20,2021. His immediate family circle was also the second family of the United States from 2009 to 2017,when Biden was vice president. Biden's family is mostly descended from the British Isles,with most of their ancestors coming from Ireland and England,and a smaller number descending from the French.
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. is a Canadian-born American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Formerly,he was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a senior trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He was the chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was recommended by New York Senator Charles Schumer for nomination to the seat on the Second Circuit that was vacated by Judge Sonia Sotomayor when she was elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. Lohier is the first Haitian-American to serve as an Article III federal judge and to be confirmed by the United States Senate as a judge.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations,Congress confirmed 329 judgeships,173 during the 111th &112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.
Leonard Philip Stark is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and was a United States magistrate judge of the same district.
Michael Charles Green is the executive commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). He is the former District Attorney for Monroe County,New York. During 2011,he was a federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York,and although he was reported out of committee to the floor of the United States Senate,Green never received a floor vote,and President Obama did not renominate him in the next session of Congress.
Gregory Howard Woods III is an American judge and lawyer. In 2013,he became a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
David Jason Hale is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky and former United States attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
Edward Lesley Stanton III is a former United States attorney for the Western District of Tennessee and is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
The Iowa elections,2018 were held in the U.S. state of Iowa on November 6,2018. A closed primary election was held on June 5,2018. All of Iowa's executive officers were up for election as well as all four of Iowa's seats in the United States House of Representatives,25 (half) of the seats in the Iowa Senate,and all 100 seats in the Iowa House of Representatives.
Diane Gujarati is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was nominated by both former US President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump,but she was only confirmed under Trump.
David Charles Weiss is an American attorney. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to be United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,and was retained by President Joe Biden. He has served in that office since February 22,2018.
William Joseph Ihlenfeld II is an American attorney and politician from West Virginia. He is a Democrat. He has served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia since 2021. He previously served in the same capacity under Barack Obama. He was a state senator in the West Virginia Senate for the 1st district from 2018 to 2021.
Valerie Biden Owens is an American political strategist,campaign manager and former educator. She is the younger sister of Joe Biden,the 46th and current president of the United States. In 2016,President Barack Obama nominated her as alternate representative of the United States to the 71st Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
