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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 20, 2024

President Joe Biden has nominated Kevin Ritz, current U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, for the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. If confirmed, he would replace Judge Julia Smith Gibbons, who announced her intention to take senior status on the court following confirmation of a successor. Ritz has served in his current role since 2022. From 2005 to 2022, he worked as an assistant U.S. attorney, serving at different times as criminal appellate chief and appellate chief. Before joining the U.S. attorney’s office, he was a law clerk for Gibbons. Ritz also is a past chair of the TBA’s Appellate Practice Section and past president of the Memphis/Mid-South Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004. The Commercial Appeal has more on the nomination.