Anthony Johnstone

On September 2, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Johnstone to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. On September 6, 2022, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden will nominate Johnstone to the seat to be vacated by Judge Sidney R. Thomas, who will assume senior status upon confirmation of a successor. On October 12, 2022, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On December 1, 2022, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 11–10 vote, with Senator Lindsey Graham passed on the vote. On January 3, 2023, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; he was renominated later the same day. His nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In 1999 and 2000, Johstone served as a law clerk for Judge Sidney R. Thomas. From 2000 to 2003, he was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. From 2004 to 2008, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Montana Department of Justice. From 2008 to 2011, he served as Solicitor General of Montana. Since 2011, he has worked as a professor at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law. He is also a solo practitioner at Johnstone PLLC in Missoula, Montana.

Johnstone earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1995 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. He married Helen Autumn Devos in 2004.

Anthony Devos Johnstone (né Anthony Cameron Johnstone; born 1973) is an American lawyer who is the nominee to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.