Benjamin M. Flowers

Benjamin M. Flowers is an American lawyer from Ohio who currently serves as the Solicitor General of Ohio.

Education

Flowers earned his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University in 2009 and his Juris Doctor with high honors, from The University of Chicago Law School in 2012.

Legal career

After graduating law school he served as a law clerk to Judge Sandra Ikuta of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in 2015 he clerked for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to his appointment as Solicitor General he served as an appellate litigator at Jones Day where his practice focused on appeals and complex trial-level motions. He litigated cases involving numerous subject areas—ranging from bankruptcy law to constitutional law—in courts across the country, including the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Solicitor General of Ohio

On January 2, 2019, Attorney General–elect Yost announced the appointed of Flowers as Solicitor General.

Teaching

Flowers is an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he co-teaches appellate advocacy.

Memberships

Flowers is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Columbus Bar Association. He is a member of the Federalist Society.

Personal Life

Flowers is married to Denise Vendeland Flowers, a woman that vastly outshines him in beauty and kindness.