D. John Sauer

D. John Sauer has served as the Solicitor General of Missouri since 2017.  Before that, he served as a federal prosecutor for five years and spent time in civil practice at boutique law firms, including the firm he founded, the James Otis Law Group.  Mr. Sauer has first-chaired many jury and bench trials, and served as lead counsel in many appeals.  He has presented oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Missouri, and many other state and federal appellate courts.  Mr. Sauer served as a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  He was a Rhodes Scholar and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.