Chad Meredith

On June 23, 2025, President Trump nominated Chad Meredith to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was confirmed on October 23, 2025.

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Biography

Chad Meredith earned his J.D from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, (May 2007) and his B.A. in Politics from Washington and Lee University, B.A. in Politics (Dec. 2003).

Legal Experience

Meredith is currently Partner at Squire Patton Boggs after previously serving as  Of Counsel (2021 – Feb. 2025).  He was Solicitor General of Kentucky, Office of the Attorney General (2019 – 2021),  Commonwealth of Kentucky, Office of the Governor  Solicitor General (2019-2019),  and Chief Deputy General Counsel (2015 – 2019).

He also worked in various roles at Ransdell & Roach, PLLC (2011 – 2015),  and as Associate at Frost Brown Todd (2009 – 2011). He was  Judicial Law Clerk to Judge Amul Thapa, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (2008 – 2009) and Judicial Law Clerk to Judge John Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (2007 – 2008).

• Meredith is a member of the Federalist Society and former member of the Kentucky Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2015).

• As Chief deputy general counsel, Meredith defended a 2017 Kentucky abortion law requiring doctor who perform abortions to first perform an ultrasound and describe the image to the patient.

• The Kentucky Right to Life Association has said it has been “very impressed” with his abilities in defending “pro-life laws passed by our general assembly.”

• In 2018, Meredith defended Kentucky’s “right-to-work” law against a challenge from labor unions.

• Meredith represented Governor Bevin in a lawsuit where Planned parenthood argued that the administration was violating the law by refusing to issue its clinic a license to perform abortions. The clinic did not receive their license until Bevin was voted out of office and the Beshear administration dropped the lawsuit.

• He defended a state law in the Kentucky Supreme Court that stripped Governor Beshear of his emergency power to implement Covid-19 restrictions.

• That previous year, Meredith had challenged Beshear’s emergency orders responding to the pandemic.

• Meredith was involved in controversial pardons and commutations issued by former Kentucky Governor Bevin, in a role where he offered recommendations – the governor granted clemency to a man who had held a fundraiser for him but had been convicted of killing a man in a robbery.