President Donald Trump on Aug. 12 announced the nomination of five individuals as federal district judges in Alabama and Mississippi.
Among them is Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
LaCour, who earned his law degree from Yale University, has been the state’s top appellate lawyer since 2019 after joining the Alabama attorney general’s office the year before. He previously practiced law as a partner at Kirkland and Ellis in Washington. He served as a law clerk to Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit….