O’Malley has been nominated for the Federal Circuit. She has been a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio since 1994. She also teaches patent litigation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she received her law degree. O’Malley has served as the first assistant attorney general and chief of staff to the Ohio attorney general. She was chief counsel to Ohio Attorney General Lee Fischer from 1991 to 1992. She is a former associate at Jones Day and made partner at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur during her tenure from 1985 to 1991.
Raymond Lohier Jr. has been nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. Lohier received his law degree from New York University and he currently serves as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York and heads the office’s Securities and Commodities Task Force. From 1997 to 2000 Lohier was a senior trial attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. He was also an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton from 1993 to 1997.