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.

After high school in Augusta, Christie went to Georgia Military College in Milledgeville on an ROTC scholarship before earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from Samford University in Alabama, according to a biography on his firm website. After law school, he worked for the Augusta district attorney for 10 years, becoming chief of the Columbia County division.