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 five years in a row and Top Workplace USA for four years in a row.
Current Openings
Assistant Attorney General
Employment, Tort, & Public Utilities Commission
Posting Number: 91458 | Application Deadline: January 29, 2026
The Attorney General’s Office seeks an experienced attorney to join its Employment, Torts, and Public Utilities Division. The attorney’s primary responsibility will be providing legal counsel and representation to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (“MPUC”). This position presents a unique opportunity to provide direct legal counsel to the MPUC and regularly engage in meaningful appellate work.
Assistant Attorney General
Human Services Division
Posting Number: 91746 | Application Deadline: February 13, 2026.
The Office is currently seeking an Assistant Attorney General in the Human Services Division of the Office. The Human Services Division provides litigation services and legal counsel to the Department of Human Services, the Department of Direct Care and Treatment, and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. AAGs in the division represent these agencies in a broad range of cases involving health care, licensing, children and family services, and civil commitment.
Office & Administrative Specialist, Intermediate (OASI)
Consumer Action Division
Posting Number: 91341 | Application Deadline: February 5, 2026
The Office is seeking an Office & Administrative Specialist, Intermediate (OASI) to provide clerical and administrative services to the Consumer Action Division. This includes support for staff attorneys, legal assistants, attorney managers, and office managers, as well as client agencies and constituents of the State of Minnesota. Support services for these positions include drafting, typing letters, memos, and correspondence, data entry, photocopying, scanning, collating, binding documents, filing, and organizational projects.
2026 Summer Law Clerk
Antitrust Division
Posting Number: 91724 | Application Deadline: February 12, 2026
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office (AGO) is offering law students a unique opportunity to work directly with Assistant Attorneys General and other staff of the AGO and gain hands-on experience with antitrust law in food and agriculture markets, including reviewing documents, researching legal issues, and drafting written product. This position allows law students to develop professional skills and expand their knowledge while performing meaningful and challenging work focused on antitrust issues in food and agriculture markets.
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.
