Attorney in Trans Athlete Challenges Tapped by Trump for Bench

Nov. 14, 2025, 10:12 PM UTC

President Donald Trump plans to tap a litigator behind efforts to prevent transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports to be a federal judge in Indiana.

Trump announced his intention in a TruthSocial post Friday to nominate Justin Olson of Kroger Gardis & Regas, LLP to sit on the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. He praised Olson for his work “fighting tirelessly to keep men out of women’s sports.”

Olson represented a group of three female swimmers who sued the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard College and others in Boston federal court this year over the participation ...

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