Draft:Jesus A. Osete
Jesus A. Osete | |
|---|---|
| General Counsel | |
| In office May 19, 2022 – January 15, 2023 | |
| Secretary of State | John R. Ashcroft |
| Deputy Attorney General for Special Litigation | |
| In office September 21, 2020 – May 15, 2022 | |
| Attorney General | Eric S. Schmitt |
| Succeeded by | D. John Sauer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1991 (age 33–34) Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of Arizona (AB) Washington University in St. Louis (JD) |
Jesus A. Osete is an American lawyer and former Deputy Attorney General for the U.S. state of Missouri. He also served as General Counsel to John R. Ashcroft, the Secretary of State of Missouri.
Education
[edit]Osete graduated from Nogales High School, which is located in the U.S.-Mexico border town of Nogales, Arizona. He received an A.B. in political science from the University of Arizona. And he received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was Senior Executive Editor for the Washington University Law Review.
Career
[edit]Before law school, Osete worked for Senator John McCain. After law school, Osete served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Zel M. Fischer of the Supreme Court of Missouri and to Judge Bobby E. Shepherd of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Osete worked in the Appellate and Supreme Court group at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, and was then appointed Deputy Solicitor General under Solicitor General D. John Sauer in the administration of Attorney General Eric Schmitt.[1][2] He was later appointed Deputy Attorney General, where he engaged in high-profile litigation against President Joe Biden.[3][4][5]
On May 19, 2022, Missouri Secretary of State John R. Ashcroft appointed Osete as his General Counsel. Ashcroft called Osete “a skilled lawyer with excellent experience in both state government and private practice.”[6]
Osete has been named an “influential appellate advocate.”[7] Politicos have called him “one of the best lawyers in government service” in Missouri, “and a true rising star,” citing his first oral argument before the United States Supreme Court at age 30.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Osete is married, and has two children.[9] He is a practicing Catholic. A member of the pioneer family from Mexico, Osete’s grandfather, Raúl Ernesto Osete Espinosa de los Monteros, owned television station XHNSS-TDT. His great grandfather, Manuel Osete, founded Banco de Nogales (later Banco Mexicano).[10]
Osete is Hispanic, and is a native speaker of the Spanish language.[11]
Osete is an active member of the Federalist Society.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ https://molawyersmedia.com/2020/12/18/ex-bclp-attorney-named-deputy-solicitor-general/
- ^ https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/key-attorneys-depart-as-major-missouri-gun-law-is-in-legal-limbo/article_15866f0b-ee06-5a74-baab-6a7549470283.html
- ^ https://molawyersmedia.com/missouriinhouse/2022/06/22/osete-named-as-secretary-of-state-general-counsel/
- ^ https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-covid-vaccine-mandates-supreme-court-01-07-22/index.html
- ^ https://www.leagle.com/decision/insco20220630f20
- ^ https://www.sos.mo.gov/default.aspx?PageId=10195
- ^ https://molawyersmedia.com/2022/12/02/joan-swartz-named-lawyer-of-the-year/
- ^ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59015f4b37c581b2ce01e5b3/t/6288dc1c1366c7273350b268/1653136412670/MOScout+Who+Won+the+Week.pdf
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/fashion/weddings/in-the-heart-of-america-a-long-distance-love.html
- ^ https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/debtors-prison/Content?oid=1079757
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/30/supreme-court-justices-diversity-lawyers/
- ^ https://fedsoc.org/contributors/jesus-osete