Josh Hawley

Josh Hawley
42nd Attorney General of Missouri Elect
Taking office January 9, 2017
Governor	Eric Greitens (Elect)
Succeeding	Chris Koster
Personal details
Born	(1979-12-31) December 31, 1979 Lexington, Missouri, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Erin Morrow
Alma mater	Stanford University (BA) Yale University (JD)
Website	Campaign website

Joshua David “Josh” Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American constitutional attorney in Missouri and the Attorney General-elect of Missouri. Hawley has served as co-counsel on multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court, including Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 573 U.S. ___ (2014) ^[1] and Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, 565 U.S. ___ (2012).^[2]

Education

Hawley grew up in Lexington, Missouri, and graduated from Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He went on to graduate with highest honors from Stanford University with an A.B. in History. He attended Yale Law School, where he led the conservative Yale Federalist Society^[3] and earned clerkships at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and subsequently the United States Supreme Court.^[4]

After attending Yale Law School, Josh was selected to be a judicial clerk for the Hon. Michael W. McConnell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He subsequently earned a clerkship at the U.S. Supreme Court with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. During this time, Hawley met his wife, a fellow Supreme Court clerk, Erin Morrow Hawley.

Legal career

After Hawley’s clerkships, he worked as an appellate litigator at Hogan Lovells US LLP in Washington D.C. At Hogan, Josh briefed cases in multiple federal circuit courts, numerous state courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. His practice spanned multiple fields of law, including the First Amendment, copyright, ERISA and criminal law.

Hawley has served as Senior Counsel to The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. With the Becket Fund, Josh litigated groundbreaking First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort. These cases most notably included Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC in 2012 and the landmark Supreme Court case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores.^[5][6][7]

Hawley has also served as an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri Law School. At the University of Missouri, Josh taught Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Legislation, and Torts.^[8]

Public Office

Hawley was the Founder^[9] and Former President of Missouri Liberty Project, a coalition of everyday citizens dedicated to fighting government overreach, defending the U.S. Constitution, and informing Missourians about the need for limited government.^[10]

In 2016 Hawley ran for Attorney General of Missouri. On August 2nd he defeated Kurt Schafer in the Republican primary 64% to 36%.

Selected Publications

• Wall Street Journal review of Justice Scalia biography, 2014^[11]
• Wall Street Journal review of Justice Holmes on Free Speech, 2013^[12]
• Return to Political Theology, 90 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 1631 (2015)^[13]
• The Intellectual Origins of (Modern) Substantive Due Process, 93 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 275 (2014)^[14]
• The Transformative Twelfth Amendment, 55 WILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW 1501 (2014)^[15]
• The Beginning of the End?: Horne v. Department of Agriculture and the Future of Williamson County, 2013 CATO SUPREME COURT REVIEW 245 (2013)^[16]
• Roosevelt's Republic: Theodore Roosevelt and the American Presidency, in A COMPANION TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)^[17]

Personal life

Josh and his wife, Erin, also a leading national appellate attorney and former U.S. Supreme Court clerk, live in central Missouri with their two young sons.

Campaign Endorsements

• National Review ^[18]
• Family Research Council ^[19]
• Former US Senator John Danforth

References

External links

Official campaign website

• Josh Hawley for Attorney General

Attorneys General of Missouri
Bates Easton Wells Napton Bay Stringfellow Robards Gardenhire E. Ewing Knott Welch Crittenden Wingate Johnson Baker H. Ewing Hockaday Smith McIntyre Boone Wood Walker Crow Hadley Major Barker McAllister Barrett Otto Gentry Shartel McKittrick Taylor Dalton Eagleton Anderson Danforth Ashcroft Webster Nixon Koster Hawley (Elect)