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Mike Hendershot

Nominated Trump 2.0

Nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

  • AFJ Opposes
  • Court District Court
  • Date Nominated

On April 1, 2026, President Trump nominated Mike Hendershot to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. 

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Biography

Hendershot received a B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1997 and J.D. from University of Virgina in 2001.

Legal Experience

Hendershot spent summers as an associate at Jones Day in 1999 and 2000, and at Baker Hostetler in 2000. He then clerked for Judge Jerry Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 2001 to 2002. Following his clerkship, he joined Brown & Bain, P.A., where he worked as an associate from 2002 to 2005. In 2005, he clerked for Justice Terrence O’Donnell on the Ohio Supreme Court. He then joined Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP as an associate from 2006 to 2011. In 2011, he became chief deputy solicitor general at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, where he currently works. During his time in this role, he also served as an adjunct professor of appellate advocacy at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law from 2019 to 2022.

Key Facts & Context 

Professional and Legal Associations

Ohio Center for Law Related Education (2012-present); Ohio Supreme Court Mentorship Program (2012-present); State Bar of Arizona (2003-present); Ohio Supreme Court Committee for Rules of Practice of the Supreme Court (2024-2025); Ohio State Bar Association (2007-2024); Central Ohio Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (2015-2016); Board of Directors of Campfire of Northwest Ohio (2013-2015); The Associates Club (2003-2005)

  • In private practice, he defended Fortune 500 corporations against securities, consumer fraud, and product liability claims
  • As chief deputy solicitor general at the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, he worked under Dave Yost, one of the most politically active attorneys general in the country
  • Represented a coalition of 17 Republican-led states in their effort to restrict California’s ability to set higher vehicle-emissions standards
  • Defended Ohio’s extreme voter-purging law before the Supreme Court