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Joshua Divine
Confirmed Trump 2.0
Confirmed to the Eastern and Western District of Missouri
On May 6, 2025, President Trump nominated Joshua Divine to the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri. He was confirmed on July 22, 2025.
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Biography
Divine earned his B.S. from University of Northern Colorado in 2012, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2016.
Legal Experience
Divine began his legal career as a paralegal at Hammond Law Group LLC in 2013. That same year, he became a research assistant at Yale University, a position he held until 2016 while completing his legal education. During law school, he gained experience as a summer associate at Bancroft PLLC in 2014 and at Jones Day in 2015.
After graduating, Divine served as a judicial clerk for Judge William Pryor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2016 to 2017. He then joined the Missouri Attorney General’s Office as Deputy Solicitor General, serving from 2017 to 2019.
From 2019 to 2020, he worked as Deputy Counsel to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, and was later promoted to Chief Counsel, a role he held from 2021 to 2022. In between, Divine clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2020–2021 term.
Since 2023, Divine has served as Missouri’s Solicitor General and Director of Special Litigation.
Missouri and Texas v. Biden
Helped lead the lawsuit in Missouri and Texas v. Biden, challenging the administration’s decision to halt construction of the southern border wall and argued that the executive branch must carry out spending on the wall.
Missouri v. Biden
Divine was at the heart of the opposition against former President Biden’s student loan debt relief program, arguing that individuals – despite the COVID-19 epidemic and racial disparities in financial burdens from higher education – should be required to make payments.
Noe v. Parson
He was the lead counsel in defending Missouri’s law that prohibited gender-affirming care for minors, despite opposition from several medical and human rights organizations.
Blackmon v. Missouri
He defended Missouri’s near-total abortion ban and supported the lawsuit to restrict access to Mifeprestone, a safe and effective abortion medication with longstanding FDA approval, in an effort to restrict abortion access nationwide.
FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
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