Elbert Lin
{{Short description|American lawyer}}
{{Use American English|date=August 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Elbert Lin
| order = 1st
| office = Solicitor General of West Virginia
| term_start = January 14, 2013
| term_end = September 1, 2017
| appointed = Patrick Morrisey
| preceded = Office established
| succeeded = Lindsay See
| birth_date =
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| spouse = Laurie Barber
| education = Yale University (BA, JD)
}}
Elbert Lin is an American lawyer who served as the first Solicitor General of West Virginia from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a partner and chair of the Issues and Appeals practice group at Hunton Andrews Kurth as well as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.
Early life and education
Lin was born in New York City, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.{{cite news|title=Decision Maker: Elbert Lin with Hunton & Williams|work=Richmond Times-Dispatch|date=November 26, 2017|url=https://richmond.com/business/local/metro-business/decision-maker-elbert-lin-with-hunton-williams/article_937b20f4-5db2-5290-804d-0abf204860a4.html|accessdate=August 23, 2023}}{{cite news|first=Eric|last=Eyre|title=WV AG Morrisey's solicitor general Lin to resign|work=Charleston Gazette-Mail|date=August 17, 2017|url=https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/politics/wv-ag-morrisey-s-solicitor-general-lin-to-resign/article_f4cd7af8-be56-516e-9d3c-1bf6107f588f.html|accessdate=August 23, 2023}} He attended Yale College and Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Career
After graduating from law school, he clerked for Senior Judge Robert Keeton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts before becoming a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division during the presidency of George W. Bush. He left the department to clerk for Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and worked at Wiley Rein in Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2013, excepting a year-long leave of absence he took to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during the Court's 2010 term.
In 2013, he was appointed by Patrick Morrisey, the newly elected Attorney General of West Virginia to serve as West Virginia's first solicitor general.{{cite news|title=Incoming W.Va. Attorney General Names Top Deputies|date=January 9, 2013|website=WOUB Public Media|agency=Associated Press|url=https://woub.org/2013/01/09/incoming-wva-attorney-general-names-top-deputies/|accessdate=August 23, 2023}} The state's appeals were previously handled by the Criminal Appellate Division of the Office of the Attorney General, now under the purview of the Solicitor General.{{cite interview|last=Flowers|first=Ben|subject-link=Ben Flowers (lawyer)|last2=Lin|first2=Elbert|subject-link2=Elbert Lin|last3=Park|first3=Ryan Y.|subject-link3=Ryan Y. Park|subject-link4=|interviewer=Britt C. Grant|title=The Role of the Modern State Solicitor General: Current and Former SGs Weigh In|type=Virtual panel|date=February 27, 2023|publisher=Federalist Society|url=https://fedsoc.org/events/the-role-of-the-modern-state-solicitor-general-current-and-former-sgs-weigh-in|accessdate=August 23, 2023}} In the early stages of the case West Virginia v. EPA, he was the lead counsel for the petitioners, and he succeeded in convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a stay on enforcement of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. Lin joined Hunton & Williams (now Hunton Andrews Kurth) in 2017.{{cite news|title=Two State Solicitors General Join Hunton & Williams|work=Business Wire|date=September 6, 2017|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170906006704/en/Two-State-Solicitors-General-Join-Hunton-Williams|accessdate=August 23, 2023}} He was appointed as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 2020.
References
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External links
- {{URL|https://www.huntonak.com/en/people/elbert-lin.html|Elbert Lin}} at Hunton Andrews Kurth
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Category:American jurists of Taiwanese descent
Category:American legal writers
Category:Asian conservatism in the United States
Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Category:Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
Category:People associated with Hunton Andrews Kurth
Category:United States Department of Justice lawyers
Category:West Virginia lawyers
Category:Yale Law School alumni
Category:21st-century American lawyers