Biden picks US attorney nominee to replace John Durham

President Joe Biden has selected a nominee to replace John Durham in his former capacity as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut as the prosecutor continues his criminal inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Vanessa Avery, who has served as chief of the Division of Enforcement and Public Protection at the Connecticut attorney general’s office since 2021 and as an assistant attorney general in that office since 2019, was named as Biden’s pick, the White House said in a press release. She would be the first black woman to serve in the state’s top federal prosecutor role if confirmed by the Senate, according to Fox 61.