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Josh Divine

American lawyer (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Josh Divine
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Joshua Michael Divine (born 1990) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. From January 2023 to 2025, he was a solicitor general of Missouri.

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Education

Divine was born in 1990 at Yokota Air Base, near Tokyo, Japan.[1] He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics summa cum laude from the University of Northern Colorado in 2012. He was a writer for the student newspaper The Mirror.[1]

Following graduation from UNCO, Divine worked briefly as a day laborer, LSAT instructor, and paralegal.[1] He then attended Yale Law School, where he was a Forum editor of the Yale Law Journal and a member of the school's Federalist Society chapter.[1][2] He received his Juris Doctor from Yale in 2016.[3]

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Divine served as a law clerk to Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2016 to 2017.[1] He then served as a Deputy Solicitor General in the Office of the Missouri Attorney General from 2017 to 2019, before working as the Deputy Counsel to United States Senator Josh Hawley.[1] From 2020 to 2021, Divine served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.[1][3][4] Divine then worked as Chief Counsel to Senator Hawley, and in December 2022, was named by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to serve as Solicitor General of Missouri in 2023.[4] In that capacity, he successfully challenged student loan forgiveness efforts by President Joe Biden.[3]

Nomination to district court

On May 6, 2025, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Divine to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.[5] On May 12, 2025, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Divine to the seat vacated by Judge Rodney W. Sippel, who assumed senior status on January 28, 2023. On June 26, his nomination was favorably reported out of committee by a 12–10 party-line vote.[6] On July 17, the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 52–46 vote.[7] On July 22, his nomination was confirmed by a 51–46 vote.[8] He received his judicial commission on July 24, 2025.[9][10]

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