Original sentence: On August 7, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he had nominated Stranch to a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, to the seat vacated when Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey assumed senior status on January 1, 2009
Edited sentence: On August 6, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that he had nominated Stranch to a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, to the seat vacated when Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey assumed senior status on January 1, 2009