Jonathan A. Kobes

Jonathan A. Kobes
Personal details
Born Jonathan Allen Kobes
(1974-08-25) August 25, 1974
Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
Education Dordt College (BA)
Harvard Law School (JD)

Jonathan Allen Kobes (born August 25, 1974)[1] is an American lawyer and general counsel to Senator Mike Rounds and is a nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Education and career

Kobes received his Bachelor of Arts from Dordt College and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and the business manager of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. After graduating from law school, he served as a clerk to Judge Roger Leland Wollman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He previously was a litigation attorney at the Central Intelligence Agency and an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota. Later, Kobes was an associate at the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, office of Murphy, Goldammer & Prendergast. Kobes was then senior counsel to POET and senior regulatory counsel to DuPont Pioneer. Before returning to the government, he was Director of Corporate Compliance at Raven Industries. Kobes is currently General Counsel to Senator Mike Rounds.[2]

Nomination to court of appeals

On June 7, 2018, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Kobes to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.[2] On June 11, 2018, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Kobes to the seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to be vacated by Judge Roger Leland Wollman, who will be taking senior status on a yet undetermined date.[3] His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On August 22, 2018, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[4] On September 14, 2018, the American Bar Association rated Kobes "Not Qualified."[5] On October 11, 2018, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve his nomination by a party-line 11-10 vote.[6]

Memberships

He was a member of the Federalist Society from 1999–2004.[7]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.mylife.com/jonathan-kobes/jonathan_kobes
  2. 1 2 "President Donald J. Trump Announces Fifteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Fourteenth Wave of United States Attorney Nominees, and Ninth Wave of United States Marshal Nominees". whitehouse.gov. June 7, 2018. Retrieved June 7, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ "Seventeen Nominations Sent to the Senate Today", White House, June 11, 2018
  4. ↑ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Nominations for August 22, 2018
  5. ↑ Gregory, Patrick (September 17, 2018). "ABA Rates Another Trump 8th Circuit Nominee 'Not Qualified'". Bloomberg BNA. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  6. ↑ {{https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/10-11-18%20Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting1.pdf}}
  7. ↑ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees: Jonathan A. Kobes
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