Nominated to the Sixth Circuit in 2001 and has served on the court since 2003, including as Chief Judge from 2014 to 2021. Previously served as Solicitor of Ohio from 1995 to 1998 and as a partner at Jones Day, and clerked for Justices Lewis F. Powell Jr. and Antonin Scalia and for Judge Thomas Meskill of the Second Circuit.

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