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
Accounting Budget Professional
Posting Number: 83166 • Closing Date: 2/3/2025
The Accounting Budget Professional coordinates accounting structures and operations, ensures compliance with established budgetary guidelines, and collaborates with leadership to implement and manage biennial and capital budgets. This role includes preparing financial models for long-range planning, forecasting, and assessment of financial matters. Additionally, the position involves managing the Attorney General Office’s Federal Grant and overseeing communications and processing related to Consumer Protection.
Assistant Attorney General, Environmental & Natural Resources
Posting Number: 82965 • Closing Date: 1/28/2025
The Office is currently seeking to hire two Special Assistant Attorneys General working in the Office’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division. The selected candidates will work through fellowships sponsored by the New York University School of Law State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (State Impact Center). The Special Assistant Attorneys will represent the State and its executive branch agencies, with a focus on multi-state and state litigation that supports and strengthens Minnesota’s strong protection of natural resources.
Consumer Analyst
Posting Number: 82851 • Closing Date: 1/21/2025
Consumer Analysts assist the Office to improve access to justice, fairness, and opportunity for Minnesotans in a wide variety of matters including the following: debt collection, employment, utilities, medical billing, and housing. Incumbents in this role are primarily responsible for answering the Office’s Consumer Assistance Hotline and providing information to Minnesotans on a range of inquiries and assisting in resolving disputes when possible.
Financial Analyst - Residential Utilities Division
Posting Number: 83102 • Closing Date: 1/29/2025*
The Office is currently seeking a Financial Analyst in the Residential Utilities Division of the Office. Financial Analysts in the Residential Utilities Division (RUD) work closely with the division manager and attorneys on contested utility rate increase requests, public utilities proceedings, civil investigations, and other matters that advance the interests of residential and small business utility customers.
* Priority consideration may be given to those that apply before 01/21/2025; interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date.
Intern - Mondale-Humphrey Scholars - Summer 2025
Posting Number: 83299 • Closing Date: 2/10/2025
The Office is currently seeking three 2025 Summer Undergraduate Interns to join the Mondale-Humphrey Scholars program. This program has been designed to introduce undergraduate students to state service and the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. Interns will have the opportunity to work directly with both legal and non-legal professionals supporting the mission of our Office.
Investigator - Consumer Protection
Posting Number: 83361 • Closing Date: 1/31/2025
The Office is currently seeking a consumer protection investigator to join the Consumer Protection Division of the Office. As a consumer protection investigator, you will have the opportunity to work on important civil enforcement investigations and litigation that seek to protect some of Minnesota’s most vulnerable and underserved communities around the State.
Law Clerk - Summer 2025
Posting Number: 83140 • Closing Date: 2/3/2025
The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office offers law students a unique opportunity to work directly with Assistant Attorneys General and gain hands on experience reviewing documents, researching legal issues, drafting written product, and appearing in court. This position allows law students to develop professional skills and expand their knowledge while performing meaningful and challenging work on a wide variety of issues. We require our law clerks to assume a significant amount of responsibility over their files and put forth the very best work on behalf of the public.
Law Clerk - Antitrust - Summer 2025
Posting Number: 83160 • Closing Date: 2/3/2025
This law clerk position focuses on antitrust law in food and agriculture markets. The Minnesota Attorney General’s Office 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 including researching legal issues, drafting written product, and reviewing documents. 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.
