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Joshua Michael Divine
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Active service.
Confirmed 51 to 46Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump
- Nominated
- May 12, 2025
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- June 4, 2025
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), June 26, 2025
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 51 to 46
- Confirmed
- July 22, 2025
- Commissioned
- July 24, 2025
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1990, 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. William J. Pryor, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2016-2017
- Deputy solicitor general, State of Missouri, 2017-2019
- Deputy counsel, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, 2019-2020
- Law clerk, Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 2020-2021
- Chief counsel, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, 2021-2022
- Solicitor general and director of special litigation, State of Missouri, 2023-2025
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