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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 23, 2026

The U.S. Senate confirmed former Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on a party-line vote yesterday according to Bloomberg Law. Flowers is currently a partner at the boutique law firm of Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers. As state solicitor general, Flowers successfully argued at the U.S. Supreme Court against the Biden-era COVID vaccine mandate. He has argued two other cases before the justices and three cases at the 6th Circuit. Flowers graduated from The Ohio State University and the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Sandra Ikuta of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He will fill the seat held by Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who announced this year he will take senior status.