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On December 18, 2022, Powell was named the Kansas Solicitor General, Kansas' top appellate attorney, by then Kansas Attorney General-elect Kris Kobach. [9] Following the start of Kobach's term, Powell succeeded Brant Laue as Kansas Solicitor General on January 9, 2023. [10] [11]
The state solicitor, appointed by the Ohio attorney general, is responsible for cases that are to be argued before the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Until 1998, the Solicitor worked without any support staff. [30] Cordray, who had earlier worked for a summer in the office of the United States solicitor general, [31 ...
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The position was created in 1993 by Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher and was first filled by Richard Cordray. It is a similar position to Solicitors in many states and is modeled after the United States Solicitor General. [1] By 2003, twenty-nine states had Solicitors General, although only eight had them fifteen years earlier. [2]
A solicitor general is a government official who serves as the chief representative of the government in courtroom proceedings. In systems based on the English common law that have an attorney general or equivalent position, the solicitor general is often the second-ranked law officer of the state and a deputy of the attorney general.
Sutton was in private practice in Columbus at the law firm Jones Day from 1992 to 1995 and 1998 to 2003, serving as Solicitor General of Ohio from 1995 to 1998. He has also served as an adjunct professor of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law [3] since 1994 and more recently as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School. [4]
The state’s highest court now needs to decide whether Oklahoma’s attorney general can jump into a long-running federal lawsuit tied to the compacts — and boot Gov. Kevin Stitt from the case.