Solicitor General

D. John Sauer 2025–present

Elizabeth Prelogar 2021–2025 Elizabeth Prelogar 2021 Jeff Wall 2020–2021 Noel Francisco 2017–2020 Jeff Wall 2017 Noel Francisco 2017 Ian Heath Gershengorn 2016–2017 Donald B. Verrilli Jr. 2011–2016 Neal Katyal 2010–2011 Elena Kagan 2009–2010 Edwin Kneedler 2009 Gregory G. Garre 2008–2009 Gregory G. Garre 2008 Paul Clement 2004–2008 Theodore Olson 2001–2004 Barbara Underwood 2001 Ken Starr 1989–1993 Charles Fried 1985–1989 Robert Bork 1973–1977 Thurgood Marshall 1965–1967 Archibald Cox 1961–1965 J. Lee Rankin 1956–1961 Simon Sobeloff 1954–1956 Walter J. Cummings Jr. 1952–1953 Philip Perlman 1947–1952 J. Howard McGrath 1945–1946 Francis Biddle 1940–1941 Robert H. Jackson 1938–1940 Charles Evans Hughes Jr. 1929–1930 William D. Mitchell 1925–1929 James M. Beck 1921–1925 William L. Frierson 1920–1921 Alexander Campbell King 1918–1920 John W. Davis 1913–1918 William Marshall Bullitt 1912–1913 Frederick William Lehmann 1910–1912 Lloyd Wheaton Bowers 1909–1910 Henry M. Hoyt 1903–1909 John K. Richards 1897–1903 Holmes Conrad 1895–1897 Lawrence Maxwell Jr. 1893–1895 Charles H. Aldrich 1892–1893 William Howard Taft 1890–1892 Orlow W. Chapman 1889–1890 George A. Jenks 1886–1889 John Goode 1885–1886 Samuel F. Phillips 1872–1885 Benjamin Bristow 1870–1872