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Zach West
Nominated Trump 2.0
Nominated to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
On August 18, 2026, President Trump nominated Zach West to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Biography
West received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and a J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Legal Experience
After law school, West clerked for Judge J. Leon Holmes of the Eastern District of Arkansas and Judge Bobby Baldock of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Between these clerkships, West was a 2013 John Marshall Fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. Following his clerkships, West joined the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office, where he worked as an assistant solicitor general and briefly served as the acting Solicitor General. He was then appointed as the office’s Director of Special Litigation where he currently serves.