Jason Manion

Jason Manion is an Ohio lawyer who has served in all three branches of federal government, in Ohio state government, and in private practice. He has extensive civil and criminal appellate briefing experience in courts across the country—primarily in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Ohio Supreme Court—and has presented more than fifteen oral arguments in the Sixth and D.C. Circuits, the Ohio Supreme Court, and federal district courts, including one argument before the en banc Sixth Circuit.

Since 2022, Jason has served in multiple roles within the U.S. Department of Justice. He currently serves as Counselor to the Attorney General, where he supports and advises Attorney General Pamela Bondi and oversees a broad spectrum of matters and issues. Before that, he served as Counselor and Chief of Staff to the Associate Attorney General, where he supported and advised Acting Associate Attorney General Chad Mizelle and senior Department leadership; served as chief of staff for the Office of the Associate Attorney General; oversaw a broad spectrum of matters and issues, primarily arising out of the Civil and Civil Rights Division; and, as needed, appeared in court to defend Administration policies. And before that, he served as an appellate Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, where he represented the United States in dozens of criminal appeals in the Sixth Circuit.

Before joining the Department, Jason served in the legislative branch as Special Counsel to Senator Ted Cruz on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary for the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett and in the judicial branch as a law clerk to two Ohio-based judges on the Sixth Circuit, Judges Alice M. Batchelder and Eric E. Murphy. In state government, he served as the Simon Karas Fellow and a Deputy Solicitor General in the Ohio Attorney General’s office, where he represented the State of Ohio primarily in the Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit, and the Ohio Supreme Court. And in private practice, he was an associate attorney in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C. office, where he focused on Supreme Court and appellate, constitutional, and administrative law matters.

Jason received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 2017 and his bachelor's degree from Thomas Edison State College in 2010.

Jason has been an active member of the Federalist Society since 2015. He previously served on the Executive Committee for the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group (2022-25) and on the Steering Committee for the Federalist Society's D.C. Young Lawyers Chapter (2021-22), and has helped plan the annual Ohio Chapters Conference since 2023.