T. Elliot Gaiser
T. Elliot Gaiser | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel | |
| Assumed office August 4, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Christopher Fonzone |
| Solicitor General of Ohio | |
| In office November 20, 2023 – August 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Benjamin M. Flowers |
| Succeeded by | Mathura Sridharan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Elliot Gaiser September 6, 1989 |
| Education | |
Thomas Elliot Gaiser (born September 6, 1989) is an American attorney who has served as the United States assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel since 2025.
After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Gaiser clerked for appellate judges Edith H. Jones, Neomi Rao, and then Justice Samuel Alito. He was involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In October 2023, Dave Yost, the Attorney General of Ohio, named Gaiser as the state's solicitor general.
In April 2025, president Donald Trump named Gaiser as his nominee for assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. He was confirmed by the Senate in July and took office the following month.