Stephen Robert McAllister (born November 27, 1962) is an American attorney, academic, and former government official. He served as the
United States Attorney for the
District of Kansas from 2018 to 2021. He also serves as the E.S. & Tom W. Hampton Distinguished Professor of Law at the
University of Kansas School of Law.
He was formerly the Solicitor General of Kansas.
A graduate of the
University of Kansas and the
University of Kansas School of Law, McAllister
clerked for
Richard Posner of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and
Clarence Thomas and
Byron R. White
Byron "Whizzer" Raymond White (June 8, 1917 April 15, 2002) was an American professional football player and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 until his retirement in 1993.
Born and raised in Color ...
of the
United States Supreme Court . After law school, he worked in private practice in the Washington D.C. office of
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
He also served as the interim director of the
Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics from 2003 to 2004.
McAllister has argued nine times before the U.S. Supreme Court. He currently teaches constitutional and federal civil rights law at the University of Kansas School of Law. He first joined the school's faculty in 1993.
[ He was the dean of the University of Kansas School of Law from 2000 to 2005.][ He served as the Solicitor General of Kansas from 2007 to 2018, after previously serving as the Solicitor of the State of Kansas from 1999 to 2003.
On February 8, 2021, he along with 55 other Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign. He resigned on February 28, 2021.]
See also
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* List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 10)
References
External links
Biography at U.S. Department of Justice
Biography at University of Kansas School of Law
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Living people
University of Kansas alumni
University of Kansas School of Law alumni
University of Kansas faculty
21st-century American lawyers
Kansas lawyers
Solicitors General of Kansas
United States Attorneys for the District of Kansas
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
People associated with Gibson Dunn
1962 births