Career
After graduating from law school,Nielson became a law clerk for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 2007 to 2008 and then clerked for Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2008 to 2009. In 2007,he entered private practice as an associate attorney at the law firm of Kirkland &Ellis in Washington,D.C.,and was made a partner there in 2012 and became an associate professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University in 2013. From 2014 to 2015,Nielson served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito at the U.S. Supreme Court. [6] Since then,he has been a scholar of administrative law,civil procedure,antitrust law,and the federal judiciary at BYU. [7]
Nielson is an elected member of the American Law Institute. [8] He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law. [9] In 2021,he was awarded the Joseph Story Award of the Federalist Society for "excellence in legal scholarship,a commitment to teaching,a concern for students," and "significant public impact in a manner that advances the rule of law in a free society". [10] On November 13,2023,Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced Nielson's appointment as the new Solicitor General of Texas to succeed Judd Stone. [11] [12] In order to assume the position,Nielson took a temporary one-year absence from teaching at BYU. [13]
On June 27,2025,Ken Paxton announced Nielson would leave the Texas solicitor general's office the following month to take a job as a professor at the University of Texas School of Law with tenure. Paxton also announced that William R. Peterson would succeed Nielson as the tenth solicitor general. [14]
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