The solicitor general of the United States,the fourth-highest ranking official within the United States Department of Justice,represents the federal government in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Elizabeth Prelogar has served in the role since October 28,2021.
In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor and/or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact name and scope of the office varies by state. Alternative titles for the office include county attorney,solicitor,or county prosecutor. Generally,the prosecutor represents the people of the jurisdiction and in many states their authority stems from the state constitution. Unlike similar roles in other common law judicial systems,these are elected,and their holders usually have an allegiance to a political party or faction,rather than being held by a career civil servant appointed on merit in an independent process.
William Holcombe Pryor Jr. is an American lawyer currently serving as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is a former commissioner of the United States Sentencing Commission. Previously,he was the attorney general of Alabama,from 1997 to 2004.
Barbara Dale Underwood is an American lawyer serving as the Solicitor General of New York. She was first appointed to the position in January 2007 by Andrew Cuomo,who was then serving as the state's attorney general. Underwood was reappointed in 2011 by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Donald Belton Ayer is an American attorney who served as the 24th United States Deputy Attorney General from 1989 to 1990,under President George H. W. Bush.
Kevin Christopher Newsom is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Jeffrey Bryan Wall is an American attorney and former government official who served as the acting Solicitor General of the United States and the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States during the Donald Trump administration. He is now a partner and head of Supreme Court and Appellate Practice at Sullivan &Cromwell in New York and Washington,DC.
John "Jay" Edward Town is an American attorney and former government official who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from August 2017 to July 2020. Town had previously served as a senior prosecutor in the Madison County District Attorney's Office.
Ryan Douglas Nelson is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was previously nominated to become Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior,but was never confirmed.
Toby Jay Heytens is an American attorney and law professor who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He served as the solicitor general of Virginia from 2018 to 2021.
Andrew Lynn Brasher is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He is a former solicitor general of Alabama.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Jennifer Gillum Rodgers is an American attorney and legal analyst at CNN.
Anna Marie Manasco is an American attorney from Alabama who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Edmund Gerald LaCour Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as the Solicitor General of Alabama since May 3,2019. He is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar is an American lawyer who has served as solicitor general of the United States since October 2021. She served as acting solicitor general from January 20,2021,at the start of the Biden administration,until President Joe Biden sent her nomination to the U.S. Senate on August 11,2021,when she was prevented from serving while the nomination was before the Senate as a result of the terms of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.
Doris Lenea Pryor is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She served as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Indiana from 2018 to 2022.
Julia Eleanor Kobick is an American lawyer serving as deputy state solicitor in the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. She is the nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Caroline S. Van Zile is an American lawyer and politician serving as the third solicitor general of the District of Columbia since 2022. She was the principal deputy solicitor general from 2020 to 2022.
