Andrew Davis

On January 6, 2026, President Trump nominated Andrew Davis to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was confirmed on April 20, 2026.

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Biography 

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1985, Davis studied at Texas Tech University (2003–2005) and the London School of Economics (Summer 2005) before earning his B.A. from Rice University in 2008. He then earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2012.

Legal Experience 

Davis worked at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (2011) before clerking for Sidney Fitzwater in the Northern District of Texas (2012–2013) and for Reena Raggi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2013–2014). He then returned to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as an associate (2014–2017) before joining the Office of the Texas Attorney General as Assistant Solicitor General (2017–2019).

Davis then worked for Senator Ted Cruz, first as his Deputy Chief Counsel (2019) and then as his Chief Counsel (2019–2022). Davis now works as a partner at Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP (2022–present).

Key Facts & Context

• Federalist Society member (2009–present, with periodic lapses in membership).

• Researched and drafted substantial portions of the briefs in Abbott v. Perez, a case that challenged Texas’s state legislative and congressional redistricting plan. Davis argued that Texas did not intentionally discriminate against minority voters in its 2013 congressional and state House maps. The conservative majority of the Supreme Court sided with Davis and allowed all but one of the challenged districts to remain in place, disenfranchising minority voters across Texas.

• Represented Fox News in Dominion v. Fox News, a defamation suit brought by Dominion after Fox News anchors repeated President Trump’s statements that Dominion’s voting machines had been rigged to steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The case settled, with Fox News agreeing to pay Dominion $787.5 million and admitting in a statement that the court had determined several of Fox’s claims about Dominion to be false.

• Represented Chevron in some of the more than 40 lawsuits brought by Louisiana parishes alleging that Chevron and other oil and gas producers failed to comply with Louisiana state law, causing billions of dollars in damages from land loss.

• Defended Mercedes-Benz, LLC, and Daimler AG in a case accusing Mercedes-Benz of misrepresenting the fuel economy and emissions of its vehicles, alleging the use of “defeat devices” that altered testing results but did not reflect emissions and fuel economy during normal vehicle operation.

• Researched, briefed, and argued a case challenging the constitutionality of the City of Austin’s paid sick leave ordinance, which required employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees