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Kevin Gafford Ritz
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 48 to 46Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- March 21, 2024
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- April 17, 2024
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), May 9, 2024
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 48 to 46
- Confirmed
- September 16, 2024
- Commissioned
- September 19, 2024
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1974, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Julia S. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2004-2005
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Western District of Tennessee, 2005-2022; criminal appellate chief, 2010-2018; special counsel to the U.S. attorney, 2011-2022; appellate chief, 2018-2022
- Adjunct professor, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, 2008-2016
- U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, 2022-2024
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