Aaron Nielson

Aaron Nielson
Nielson in 2021
9th Solicitor General of Texas
Assumed office
November 13, 2023
Appointed byKen Paxton
GovernorGreg Abbott
Preceded byJudd Stone
Personal details
Born1980 (age 4445)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (BA)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge (LLM)
Harvard University (JD)

Aaron Lloyd Nielson (born 1980) is an American lawyer and legal scholar who has served as the solicitor general of Texas since 2023. He is a professor of law at Brigham Young University (BYU) and an expert on the Administrative Procedure Act. In 2020, he was appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the case Collins v. Yellen (2021).