Career Opportunities
About the Office
The Office of Attorney General Keith Ellison has a clear mission: we help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. We are a dynamic group of dedicated professionals who choose public service as a calling, and we are actively and intentionally committed to supporting an internal culture that affirms that calling. The Office is one of Minnesota’s largest public law offices and as of 2024, has been recognized as a Star Tribune Top Workplace Minnesota for four years in a row and Top Workplace USA for three years in a row.
Current Openings
Assistant Attorney General, Human Services Division
Posting Number: 82168 • Closing Date: 3/11/2025
The Human Services Division provides litigation services and legal counsel to the Department of Human Services (DHS), the state’s largest agency. AAGs in the division represent DHS in a broad range of cases involving health care, licensing, children and family services, and civil commitment. AAGs regularly handle cases in state and federal district court, state and federal appellate courts, and the Office of Administrative Hearings.
Legal Administrative Assistant Senior
Posting Number: 84311 • Closing Date: 3/11/2025
The Office is seeking a Confidential Legal Administrative Assistant Senior to support the Solicitor General Section, specifically assigned to work with attorneys on confidential matters within the Employment, Tort, and Public Utilities Commission Division.
Special Assistant Attorney General – Environmental and Natural Resources
Posting Number: 84319 • Closing Date: 3/10/2025
The Office is currently seeking to hire a Special Assistant Attorney General working in the Office’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division. The selected candidate will work through a fellowship sponsored by the New York University School of Law State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (State Impact Center).
Special Counsel - Rule of Law (Solicitor General Section)
Posting Number: 84309 • Closing Date: 3/10/2025
The Office is currently seeking a Special Counsel – Rule of Law attorney to assist with the Attorney General’s efforts to protect the rule of law during this unprecedented period.
Our differences make us stronger and leveraging them helps us create a workforce where everyone can thrive. The State of Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embedding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility at our workplace. We do this by developing strong leaders and advocates, increasing cultural competence, and understanding among all employees, and removing institutional barriers and attitudes that prevent employees from advancing as far as their talents will take them. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), marital status, familial status, receipt of public assistance, membership or activity in a local human rights commission, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, or age.
We will make reasonable accommodations to all qualified applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability who needs assistance or cannot access the online job application system, please contact the job information line at (651) 259-3637 or email careers@state.mn.us. Please indicate what assistance you need.
