Ohio’s lead government attorney for appeals cases is this year’s recipient of The Heritage Foundation’s Distinguished Intern Alumni Award.
T. Elliot Gaiser, tapped late last year as the 11th solicitor general of Ohio, interned 10 years earlier at Heritage.
Derrick Morgan, Heritage’s executive vice president, presented Gaiser with the award Dec. 9 at the leading think tank’s President’s Club D.C. Summit.
The honor comes about a year after Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, called Gaiser an “appellate ace” in appointing him Nov. 20, 2023, as the state’s lead attorney for appeals in state and federal courts.
In naming Gaiser, Yost called the Ohio native “a master craftsman of ironclad legal arguments rooted in originalist principles and constitutional restraint.”
Gaiser previously worked at the Columbus law firm of Jones…
