Jason Manion

Jason Manion is an Ohio-based appellate attorney who has served in all three branches of federal government, in 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 ten oral arguments in the Sixth Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, and federal district court.

Jason currently serves as an appellate Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, where he represents the United States primarily in criminal appeals in the Sixth Circuit. He previously served 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 as a law clerk to two Ohio-based judges on the Sixth Circuit, Judges Alice M. Batchelder and Eric E. Murphy. In state government, Jason served as the Simon Karas Fellow and a Deputy Solicitor General in the Ohio Attorney General’s office under Attorneys General Mike DeWine and Dave Yost, where he represented the State of Ohio primarily in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit, and the Ohio Supreme Court. And in private practice, Jason 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 earned his law degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School in 2017 and his undergraduate degree from Thomas Edison State College in 2010.

Jason currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group. He previously served on the Steering Committee for the Federalist Society's D.C. Young Lawyers Chapter.