President Donald Trump’s pick to become U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia is an Augusta trial lawyer who is also a part-time magistrate, a judge advocate general and colonel in the Army National Guard and a former prosecutor who is one of the few to win a murder conviction without the body of the victim.

Bobby Christine is a partner with Christine & Evans, a law firm based in Evans just outside Augusta, a magistrate judge in Columbia County and a former assistant district attorney in Augusta.