The background of the current nominee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neomi_Rao
Neomi Jehangir Rao (born March 22, 1973) is an American attorney, law professor, academic, and federal government official who currently serves as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
President Trump has nominated her to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Before assuming her current role, Rao was an associate professor of law and the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Administrative State at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
Her research and teaching focused on constitutional and administrative law.
Rao was born to mother Zerin Rao and father Jehangir Narioshang Rao, both Parsi physicians from India, raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and was educated at Detroit Country Day School.
After graduating from Yale University with highest distinction in ethics, politics, economics, and philosophy, Rao attended the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and received her Juris Doctor in 2000. She was the comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy for the Symposium edition.
Rao clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from 2001 to 2002, and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2000 to 2001.
After her clerkships, she practiced public international law and arbitration at British law firm Clifford Chance in London, United Kingdom. During the second term of the presidency of George W. Bush, Rao worked in the White House counsel’s office and as a staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Later, she became a professor at George Mason University School of Law (subsequently renamed the Antonin Scalia Law School, a change for which she advocated), where she received tenure in 2012. In 2015, she founded the Center for the Study of the Administrative State.
She is a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and the governing council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, where she co-chairs the section’s regulatory policy committee.
She is a member of the Federalist Society.
She really loves brushing her hair..?