Joshua served as a law clerk to Judge Daniel A. Manion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Judge Thomas B. Bennett of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama. While clerking for Judge Bennett, Joshua managed cases filed under all chapters of the Bankruptcy Code and worked extensively on Jefferson County’s $4.2 billion reorganization.  He received a Distinguished Legal Writing Award from the Burton Foundation in 2010.