Michael Hilgers Sr. (born October 25, 1978) is an American businessman, lawyer and politician who is the Nebraska Attorney General.

After graduating from law school, He served as a judicial clerk for the Edith Brown Clement, senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He worked at the International Intellectual Property Law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., before moving back home to Lincoln.

The law firm was named to Inc. magazine's list of fastest 5000 growing companies in the country three years in a row.

For the 107th Legislature, he serves as a member of the executive board, Legislative Performance Audit, Planning, and Reference Committees.

In 2019, Hilgers introduced and prioritized LB616, a bill to accelerate construction of the “long-awaited South Beltway, reducing its completion timetable from eight to three years.”[8] In addition to accelerating the timetable for completion the bill was estimated to save $25 million in construction costs.

In 2021, he prioritized LB388, a bill introduced at the request of Governor Ricketts to expand high-speed broadband to 30,000 households around the State of Nebraska.

[11] He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife Heather, and four children – Alice, Elsie, Clara Jane, and Michael Jr.[12]