Eric Earl Murphy is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump on January 23, 2019, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 7, 2019, by a vote of 52-46. The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit is one of 13 U.S. courts of appeal. They are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal courts. At the time of his nomination, Murphy was the state solicitor of Ohio in the office of the Ohio attorney general.
