Wendy Vitter

On January 3, 2019, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On January 23, 2019, President Trump announced his intent to renominate Vitter for a federal judgeship. Her nomination was sent to the Senate later that day. On February 7, 2019, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote. On May 15, 2019, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on her nomination by a vote of 51–45, with Senator Susan Collins the lone Republican voting against. On May 16, 2019, her nomination was confirmed by a vote of 52–45. She received her judicial commission on May 29, 2019.

On January 23, 2018, Donald Trump nominated Vitter to the seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana vacated by Judge Helen Ginger Berrigan, who took senior status on August 23, 2016. On April 11, 2018, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On May 24, 2018 her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–10 vote.

Senator Richard Blumenthal asked Vitter whether she thought Brown v. Board of Education was "correctly decided," and she declined to answer, saying "I don't mean to be coy, but I think I can get into a difficult, difficult area when I start commenting on Supreme Court decisions -- which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with. Again my personal, political or religious views I would set aside -- that is Supreme Court precedent. It is binding. If I were honored to be confirmed, I would be bound by it and of course, I would uphold it." She further stated "It's very easy to see Plessy v. Ferguson and to read Justice Harlan's dissent which of course became the basis for Brown v. Board of Education and to look at that and say well that sounds very obvious to us now in 2018, that that was the right decision, but that's hindsight, I have the benefit of that hindsight." She stated that "she didn't think she should comment on which cases she agreed with for fear of starting down a slippery slope." According to CNN, "Judicial conservatives argued Vitter had declined to answer the Brown question because she believes that judges should maintain their impartiality by declining to put forward personal opinions on particular cases." In written follow-up questions submitted after her hearing, Vitter said "I do not believe that racial segregation in schools is constitutional."

Vitter worked as the General Counsel of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans from 2012–2019, representing the body in all legal matters.

She is married to former U.S. Senator David Vitter, with whom she has four children. The Vitters reside in Metairie, Louisiana. Vitter predicted in 2000 that she would act more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary Clinton, if her husband strayed, saying, "If he does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me." In 2007, Vitter stood by her husband and publicly stated her support for him after he admitted to and apologized for involvement with an escort service.

Wendy Baldwin Vitter (née Wendy Lee Freret Baldwin; born 1961) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.