Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen applauded President Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday that he intends to nominate Jennifer Togliatti to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for Nevada.

“We welcome the nomination of Judge Togliatti, a Nevadan who served twenty years on our state court bench, including as Chief Judge for Clark County’s Eighth Judicial District Court,” the two said in a joint statement. “Over the course of her three decades of service in the Nevada legal community, Togliatti has ruled in some of the most difficult cases our state has seen, yet she maintains a reputation as a fair-minded and objective judge. We look forward to meeting with her and reviewing her full record.”

Togliatt retired as a full-time state judge in December. She works as a mediator and arbitrator for Advanced Resolution Management (ARM) in Las Vegas.

Appointed to Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Court by Gov. Kenny Guinn in 2002, during her nearly two-decade tenure Togliatti presided over more than 250 jury trials and conducted more than 300 settlement conferences, according to her biography on the ARM website.

“Her settlements have involved complex, multi-party cases with resolutions totaling well over a half-billion dollars,” ARM said.

Some of her career highlights include being tapped by the Nevada Supreme Court in 2012 to conduct a mandatory settlement conference for civil lawsuits that were filed as a result of the hepatitis C outbreak in Southern Nevada in 2007 and 2008.

In 2014, she helped settle a construction defect case involving Tutor Perini Corp., various sub-contractors, casino giant MGM Resorts International and CityCenter’s Harmon Hotel.

Before serving as a judge, she was a deputy district attorney for Clark County.

Togliatti earned her B.S. from UNLV and her J.D. from the California Western School of Law.