Jeffrey S. Sutton

Professional career

• Sutton clerked for Judge Thomas Meskill of the Second Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Lewis Powell (senior status) and Antonin Scalia, who praised him as “one of the very best law clerks” he ever had
• Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Law clerk, Hon. Thomas Meskill, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1990-1991
• Law clerk, Hon. Lewis Powell and Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, 1991-1992
• Practiced law at Jones Day in Columbus and held the role of Ohio Solicitor General from 1995 to 1998
• In 2026, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law
• Sutton has also been an adjunct professor at Ohio State University College of Law since 1993 and a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School, teaching state constitutional law and appellate advocacy
• Adjunct professor of law, Ohio State University College of Law, 1994-present
• Judge, Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2003-present

Personal record

Born 1960 · Dhahran, Saudi Arabia