D. John Sauer

Dean John Sauer (born November 13, 1974) is an American lawyer who previously served as Solicitor General of Missouri and Deputy Attorney General for Special Litigation in the U.S. state of Missouri.

D. John Sauer
Deputy Attorney General
for Special Litigation
In office
January 3, 2023 – January 27, 2023
Attorney GeneralAndrew Bailey
Preceded byJesus A. Osete
Solicitor General of Missouri
In office
January 9, 2017 – January 3, 2023
Attorney GeneralJosh Hawley
Eric Schmitt
Preceded byJames R. Layton
Succeeded byJoshua M. Divine
Personal details
Born
Dean John Sauer

(1974-11-13) November 13, 1974
EducationDuke University (BA, BSE)
University of Oxford (BA)
University of Notre Dame (MA)
Harvard Law School (JD)

Education

Sauer graduated from Saint Louis Priory School, a Catholic secondary day school for boys in Creve Coeur, suburban St. Louis, Missouri, run by the Benedictine monks of Saint Louis Abbey. Sauer received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in electrical engineering from Duke University. He earned a Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and was a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in theology.[1] Sauer received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was the articles editor for the Harvard Law Review.[2]

After law school, Sauer served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sauer worked as a litigation associate at Cooper & Kirk and then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. He later entered private practice again.[3]

In January 2017, then-Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley appointed Sauer Solicitor General of Missouri.[4]

On December 10, 2020, as Solicitor General Counsel of Record, Sauer signed the "Motion of States of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, And Utah To Intervene And Proposed Bill of Complaint In Intervention" in an attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.[5] The motion sought to intervene and join the Texas Bill of Complaint (filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton), which seeks to prevent the selection of presidential electors based upon the November election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan.[6]

In January 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey appointed Sauer Deputy Attorney General for Special Litigation.[7][8] Sauer resigned from his post on January 27, 2023.[9]

See also

References
  1. "32 American College Students Are Named Rhodes Scholars". The New York Times. December 9, 1996. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
  2. Parker, Shannon (January 29, 2009). "LN Ten Most Interesting: John Sauer". Laude News. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
  3. "WULS: Faculty Profiles". Washington University School of Law. June 15, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  4. Mannies, Jo (February 10, 2017). "Missouri Attorney General Hawley addresses Democrats' residency concerns, rents apartment". KWMU. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
  5. "MOTION OF STATES OF MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND UTAH TO INTERVENE AND PROPOSED BILL OF COMPLAINT IN INTERVENTION, December 10, 2020" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United States.
  6. "AG Paxton Sues Battleground States for Unconstitutional Changes to 2020 Election Laws". Office of the Attorney General of Texas.
  7. "Bailey brings on national conservative figure, Josh Divine as Solicitor General". December 22, 2022.
  8. "Missouri's new attorney general to be sworn-in today | 93.9 the Eagle".
  9. "Legal Resistance to Biden Administration in Doubt as Powerhouse AG Offices Stumble". National Review. January 27, 2023.
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