President Donald Trump on Friday announced two Texas federal trial court nominees, including one who was a former clerk to now-Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett.

Brantley Starr, picked for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, was Willett’s first clerk on the Texas Supreme Court. Starr is now the deputy first assistant attorney general of Texas, overseeing “nearly two dozen divisions of the Office of the Attorney General of Texas,” according to the White House.