White House nominates Dino LaVergne as US Ambassador to Kuwait
The White House has nominated Virginia attorney Dino LaVergne as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Kuwait, a move that requires confirmation by the U.S. Senate before he assumes office.
The White House officially referred LaVergne’s nomination to the Senate on Monday, September 28, 2026, as part of a group of nominations for government and diplomatic positions.
LaVergne serves as a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm Sidley Austin and possesses nearly two decades of experience in legal, regulatory, government, and national security matters.
He previously served in the White House Counsel’s Office during both of President Donald Trump’s terms, spending approximately three years in the first administration and holding the positions of Senior Associate Counsel to the President and Special Assistant to the President.
His responsibilities included providing legal advice on the selection, nomination, and appointment of Supreme Court justices, federal judges, Cabinet members, and senior government officials, as well as working on nominations requiring Senate confirmation and conducting background investigations of nominees.
LaVergne temporarily returned to the White House at the start of Trump’s second term as a special government employee, serving as Senior Counsel to the President and handling legal aspects of Senate-confirmed nominations, alongside security clearance issues and background investigations of nominees.
His professional expertise spans the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, energy, and finance sectors. He is also a co-founder of the Robotics, Automation, and Drones practice group at Sidley Austin.
LaVergne earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors from Boston University in 2003 and a Juris Doctor degree with honors from New York University School of Law in 2006. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and several federal courts.
