Douglas G. Wardlow (born July 3, 1978) is an American attorney and politician who served as a Minnesota state representative from district 38B.

[3] Wardlow worked for Alliance Defending Freedom, but left the group when he launched his bid to become Minnesota Attorney General in 2018.

[3][7] While working for the organization in 2017, Wardlow testified in a school board meeting against allowing transgender students to access facilities in accordance with their gender identities, stating that such policies would "expose children to members of the opposite sex in restrooms or in locker rooms.

He told The Colorado Independent that the Supreme Courts' decision in favor of same-sex marriage was a "totalitarian impulse," and that the country was not "many steps away from tyranny."

According to The Colorado Independent, "[Wardlow's] hope is that the country will experience a “culture shift” and return to what he sees as the United States’ historical roots in Judeo-Christian beliefs and the idea that marriage is an exclusively heterosexual institution.

[13] Grassroots–Legalize Cannabis Party candidate Noah Dilly Johnson had endorsed Ellison, but remained on the general election ballot.

[19] Wardlow has stated that he would not join other Republican attorney generals who sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

[3] During his campaign for Minnesota Attorney General, Wardlow stated the office is not a "policymaking position" and would refrain from anything "legislative in scope.

Former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Paul Anderson remarked, after learning that Wardlow had maintained a politically conservative legal blog during his time as a law clerk, that "I found the conduct of Mr. Wardlow so egregious, so undermining of the ethics and the standards we have on the court I thought he should have been terminated immediately.

[24] In 2020, Wardlow joined MyPillow as Mike Lindell's General Counsel, overseeing legal aspects of the company.

Wardlow came under criticism over statements made following the killing of Daunte Wright by police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

[29] Wardlow was a guest of conservative talk show host Joe Pags, when he stated that Daunte Wright "might still be alive if we didn't have so much pressure against the police.