Solicitor General of Ohio

In addition to the solicitor and his assistants, The Simon Karas Fellowship program which was instituted in 2000, supports one lawyer each year to focus on appellate litigation soon after completion of law school or a judicial clerkship.

[1] In the first ten years of the position, three former United States Supreme Court Clerks held the appointment.

Cordray, who served under then-Attorney General Lee Fisher until Betty Montgomery won the position in 1994, argued a technical criminal case on Halloween day in 1993 when the post was created.

Organizing the department with a separate solicitor general is a model that states are using in an attempt to promote the professionalism and quality of the work.

Also, the solicitor is typically someone who was not involved in the attorney general's campaign and is thus someone who is more likely to offer a different perspective than other lawyers who are entrenched in the department.