U.S. Senate Confirms Baesler to Education Post, Chase as US Attorney For North Dakota

Kirsten Baesler, left, and Nicholas Chase. (Submitted photos via the North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota is about to lose its superintendent but gain a U.S. attorney after the U.S. Senate confirmed dozens of federal nominations.

North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler was confirmed as the next assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education at the Department of Education. The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm more than 100 nominees.

Baesler was nominated to the position in February and was advanced out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to the Senate floor in May.

Nicholas Chase was also confirmed as part of the U.S. Senate’s approval vote on Tuesday and will serve as the U.S. attorney for North Dakota. Chase served as a judge in North Dakota’s East Central Judicial District with chambers in Fargo after being appointed to the position by then-Gov. Doug Burgum in 2022.

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