US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have announced the special guests that are invited to attend President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress, and who will be sitting next to the First Lady during this event, reported Voice of America.   

These special guests include Megan Crowley, a 20-year-old university student, who was diagnosed with Pompe Disease at 15 months old and was not given more than a few years to live is due to attend. Her father founded Novazyme Pharmaceuticals, which started as a five-person start-up and has grown into a company employing more than 100 people, to find a cure to the disease. 

Jessica Davis and Susan Oliver are the widows of Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Danny Oliver, who were killed in 2014. The suspect in that case is awaiting trial after being found mentally competent last month. The officers were named in a 2015 Senate bill sponsored by then-Senator Jeff Sessions, now the nation's attorney general, that called for the kind of cooperation between federal immigration enforcement and local agencies that the Trump administration is now putting into action.

Denisha Merriweather is an example of a private-education success story. After switching schools often and struggling with course work, she enrolled in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Programme and began going to a private school. The White House says she is the first member of her family to have graduated from high school and college. 

The widow of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is also expected to attend the event. Earlier this month, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to succeed Justice Scalia, who died in February 2016, on the Supreme Court. 

Jamiel Shaw Sr, whose son Jamiel Jr was 17-years-old when he was shot by a gang member in 2008, also appears on the Trumps’ guest list. The White House says Jamiel’s killer was also an illegal immigrant.