TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 10, 2026

President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate former Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin “Ben” Flowers to a seat on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Flowers is an attorney at Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC in Cincinnati. He previously worked for Jones Day and Sidley Austin. If confirmed, he will fill the seat currently held by Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who plans to take senior status on Oct. 1. As solicitor general, Flowers won three cases before the en banc 6th Circuit as well as a challenge to the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate for certain businesses before the U.S. Supreme Court. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge Sandra Ikuta of the 9th Circuit. Bloomberg Law has more on his career.