Jones Day, Quinn Emanuel Alums Get Trump Judicial Nods

President Donald Trump nominated newly minted federal district Judge Peter Phipps to a slot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit May 3 in his latest round of judicial nominations.

Phipps served for 14 years at the Department of Justice, most recently as senior trial counsel in the Federal Programs Branch of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division. Earlier in his career he had a three-year stint as an associate at the global law firm Jones Day.

With his judicial appointments, Trump has flipped the Third Circuit from mostly Democratic-appointed judges to mostly Republican-appointed judges.

Transforming the judiciary has been a signature achievement of the Trump Administration, and Trump notched his 100th judicial appointment this week.

Trump also nominated Charles Eskridge, a partner at litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, in Houston, Texas, to serve as a federal district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Before joining Quinn Emanuel, Eskridge spent over twenty years in the Houston, Texas, office of Susman Godfrey LLP.

The newest list of nominations also included:

• Douglas R. Cole, nominated to serve as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio;
• Kea W. Riggs, nominated to serve as judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
• William Shaw Stickman IV, nominated to serve as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; and
• Jennifer Philpott Wilson, nominated to serve as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.