NYT: 

Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation battles, was named on Wednesday as the new president of the American Constitution Society, a leading progressive organization active on legal issues nationwide.

Mr. Brest, 38, was a senior White House counsel in the Biden administration and played an instrumental role in winning confirmation of 235 federal judges in the Biden era, topping the total from President Trump’s first term by a single judge.

Those judges were a stark departure from the past. Many came not from the ranks of prosecutors and corporate lawyers but from the worlds of defense, civil rights and labor law, and they included scores of women and people of color.

Before that, Mr. Brest was a top lawyer on the Senate Judiciary Committee and advised Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and then the chairman of the panel, on nominees and confirmation issues.