The Trump administration on Wednesday officially announced nominees for two open U.S. attorney positions in Alabama, including one with a troubling past.

Trump nominated attorneys Thomas Govan, the current chief of criminal trials in the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, to become the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Phil Williams, a former state senator who dealt with ethics questions and a criminal investigation prior to leaving office, as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District. Both nominees face Senate confirmation hearings.

Govan is a longtime prosecutor who has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District and also served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps. He ran unsuccessfully for the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, despite having t

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