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Kidd was born in 1983 in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Emory University on a full-tuition scholarship, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts with high honors. He then attended the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, as well as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. He graduated in 2008 with a Juris Doctor.
On May 8, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Kidd to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. On May 24, 2024, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Kidd to the seat being vacated by Judge Charles R. Wilson, who will assume senior status on December 31, 2024. On June 5, 2024, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his confirmation hearing, he was questioned by Republican Senators about his record and his views about a controversial law review article written by a law school classmate. On June 20, 2024, it was discovered that Kidd had withheld two overturned rulings from the U.S. Senate which involved child sex crimes. Republicans accused Kidd of being deceptive and extreme in his views. On July 11, 2024, his nomination was favorably reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a party line 11–10 vote. On November 14, 2024, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 49–44 vote, with Senator Joe Manchin voting against the motion. On November 18, 2024, the Senate confirmed his nomination by a 49–45 vote. He is awaiting his judicial commission.
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