President Barack Obama nominated Judge David Campos Guaderrama to serve on the United States District Court bench for the Western District of Texas. He's been a U.S. Magistrate Judge for almost a year and was a state district judge in El Paso for 15 years before that. Guaderrama was also El Paso County's first chief public defender.

Gov. Rick Perry has been on the road a lot, but his appointments office has been busy.

• He appointed seven members to the Texas Commission on the Arts. Rita E. Baca of El Paso is a business fashion consultant and sales representative for P and G Prestige. Andrew Barlow of Austin is founder and CEO of Overflow Communications. Patricia “Patty” Bryant of Amarillo is owner of Patty A. Bryant Communications. David Garza of Brownsville is a partner at the Garza & Garza law firm. Mila Gibson of Sweetwater is founder and former director of the Amarillo Opera, and a retired music professor at Amarillo College. Ronald “Ronnie” Sanders of San Antonio is a fine arts teacher in the San Antonio Independent School District and a former collegiate choral director. Marsha Wilson Rappaport of Galveston is director of grants management and development for St. Vincent’s House.

• The governor appointed four members to the Texas Animal Health Commission. Brandon Bouma of Plainview is partner and manager of Legacy Farms, manager of Heifer Ranch at Arroyo Seco, and owner and manager of BHB Farms. Thomas Kezar of Dripping Springs is owner and operator of CTN Educational Services. Ernie Morales of Devine is owner of Morales Feed Lots. Michael Vickers of Falfurrias is owner and president of Las Palmas Veterinary Hospital.

• Perry named three members to the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. Janie Allen Carpenter of Garland is a veterinarian at Richardson Veterinary Clinic. Joe Mac King of Dallas is a veterinarian and owner of King Veterinary Associates. Chad Upham of Boerne is a partner at the Nunley Firm.

• He reappointed Steven M. Weinberg of Colleyville to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Weinberg is a retired associate director of the U.S. Peace Corps.

• The Guv named six members to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission. Richard Dolgener of Andrews is the Andrews County judge. Eric Doyal of Houston is a senior associate at Capital Point Partners. Milton Lee II of San Antonio is a registered professional engineer and retired CEO of CPS Energy. Linda Morris of Waco is a licensed medical health physicist, and an associate professor and chair of the Texas State Technical College Waco Environmental Health and Safety and Radiation Protection Technologies departments. John Matthew Salsman of College Station is a certified health physicist, and director of Environmental Health and Safety at Texas A&M University. Robert Wilson of Lockhart is an attorney and partner at Jackson, Sjoberg, McCarthy and Wilson.

• And Perry appointed four members to Humanities Texas. Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr. of El Paso is director of the University of Texas at El Paso African American Studies Program and an associate professor in the Department of History. Joy Ann Havran of Fort Worth is a certified public accountant. Polly Sowell of Austin is retired, and a community volunteer. Venus Strawn of Austin is a retired nurse and community volunteer.