Mathura Sridharan

Mathura Sridharan serves as Deputy Solicitor General in Ohio’s Office of the Solicitor General. She also directs Ohio’s Tenth Amendment Center for which she initiates and directs suits to defend Ohioans against unlawful federal policies and to preserve separation of powers between the federal and state governments. In those roles, she has briefed and argued numerous appeals before the Ohio Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court, and the Sixth, and other, Circuit Courts of Appeals. Most recently, Mathura argued before the United States Supreme Court in Ohio v. EPA representing several States in a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s good neighbor rule which regulates the interstate transport of air pollution.

Before joining the Ohio Solicitor’s Office, Mathura clerked for Judge Steven J. Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Deborah A. Batts of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She holds a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.