D. John Sauer

Sauer received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and his Bachelor of Science in Engineering in electrical engineering from Duke University. He earned a Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in theology.[1] Sauer received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was the articles editor for the Harvard Law Review.[2]

After law school, Sauer served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sauer worked as a litigation associate at Cooper & Kirk and then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. He later entered private practice again.[3]

In January 2017, then-Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley appointed Sauer Solicitor General of Missouri.[4]

On December 10, 2020, as Solicitor General Counsel of Record, Sauer signed the "Motion of States of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, And Utah To Intervene And Proposed Bill of Complaint In Intervention" in an attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.[5] The motion seeks to intervene and join the Texas Bill of Complaint (filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton), which seeks to prevent the selection of presidential electors based upon the November election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan.[6]

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
• List of Rhodes Scholars

• Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project