Benjamin Flowers

On April 9, 2026, President Trump nominated Benjamin Flowers to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. 

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Biography

Flowers received a B.A. from the Ohio State University in 2009 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2012.

Legal Experience

While still in law school, Flowers worked as an extern to Judge Joan Lefkow on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and as a research assistant to Professor Rosalind Dixon at the University of Chicago. He also worked as a summer associate at Sidley Austin LLP. Immediately after law school, Flowers worked as a law clerk to Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2013. He then rejoined Sidley Austin, where he worked as an associate from 2013 to 2014.

In 2014, Flowers clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. He then joined Jones Day as an associate from 2015 to 2019, before joining the Ohio Attorney General’s Office as first deputy solicitor general and then solicitor general, starting in 2019.

Alongside this work, Flowers worked as an adjunct professor at Ohio State University from 2018 to 2019. Currently, Flowers serves as the sole member of Ben Flowers LLC, and as a partner at Ashbrook Bryne Kresge Flowers LLC, working at both since 2023.

Key Facts and Context

Professional and Legal Associations

Federalist Society Madison Club Member (highest-level annual donor) (2015-2019, 2024-present); Federalist Society Columbus Lawyers Chapter President (2016-2019, 2024-2025); Federalist Society Member (2010-present); Brookside Golf & Country Club (2025-present); Center of Science & Industry (2025-present); Teneo (2025-present); Ohio Farm Bureau (2024-present); Commission on the Rules of Superintendence for Ohio Courts (2024-present); Upper Arlington Civic Association (2021-present); Ohio State Bar Association (2018-present); Bankruptcy Judge Merit Selection Panel for the Southern District of Ohio (2024); American Bar Association (2014)

• Flowers filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Barbara arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants

• Argued on behalf of the Independent Women’s Forum and the Center for Christian Virtue that Ohio should be allowed to ban certain gender affirming care for transgender minors

• In his personal writings, Flowers has downplayed President Trump’s role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and insisted that it was not “an insurrection.”

• Flowers fought to invalidate an Inflation Reduction Act program aimed at reducing prescription drug costs.
• In Ohio v. Becerra, Flowers led a coalition of Republican states in an effort to prevent the federal government from using Title X funds to support family-planning programs that include abortion as an option.