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Bluestone, Zachary M. 
   Eastern District of Missouri, Nominated 5/12/25.

Zachary Bluestone currently serves as the Appellate Chief and a violent crimes prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri. Prior to this role, he was Deputy Solicitor General in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Bluestone clerked for Judge Raymond W. Gruender on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Mr. Bluestone graduated from Harvard Law School in 2016, where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He also holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford.

Divine, Joshua M.
   Eastern District of Missouri, Nominated 5/12/25.

Joshua Devine has been the Solicitor General of Missouri since January 2023. Previously, he served as Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley and practiced law at Husch Blackwell and at Ford, Parshall & Baker. Mr. Devine clerked for Judge William H. Pryor Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Devine earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado.














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