appointee

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Jimmy Gurulé, a former federal prosecutor and George W. Bush appointee to the U.S.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Mueller is a "consummate professional and a straight shooter," then-FBI chief Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, said in July 2019.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Danielle Forrest, another Trump appointee, signed onto a separate opinion by Judge John Owens that states: “Regarding the dissenting opinion of Judge VanDyke: We are better than this.”

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

Top Iranian officials—President Masoud Pezeshkian, judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i and an appointee from Iran’s 12-member Guardian Council—formed a temporary three-person council to govern the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander