David Kustoff

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Rep. David Kustoff, official portrait, 2023

David Kustoff (born October 8, 1966) is an American attorney and Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district since 2019.

Born and raised in Shelby County, Tennessee, Kustoff graduated from White Station High School in Memphis before earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Memphis and a Juris Doctor from its Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1992. He began his career in politics during the 1990s, chairing George W. Bush's presidential campaigns in Tennessee for 2000 and 2004.

Appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee in 2006 by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate, Kustoff prosecuted major corruption cases, including overseeing most of the Tennessee Waltz trials that resulted in federal prison sentences for Senator John Ford and 12 other defendants. In Congress, he has prioritized issues affecting his district's agricultural economy, which is Tennessee's largest, while advocating conservative policies on national security, fiscal responsibility, and law enforcement.

In brief

David Kustoff practiced law in Memphis and ran the U.S. Attorney’s Office for West Tennessee before asking voters for a House seat. The district is cotton country and the eastern edge of Memphis; he has held it as a Republican from a Jewish family.

The work is constituent-heavy and committee-quiet: courts, agriculture, and the federal footprint along the Mississippi. He treats the prosecutor’s voice as a political style — short sentences, few adjectives.