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- John J. Bursch (born 1972) was the 10th Michigan Solicitor General. He was appointed by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on February 28, 2011. Prior to being Michigan Solicitor General, Bursch served as chair of the Appellate Practice and Public-Affairs Litigation Groups at Warner Norcross & Judd. Bursch argued in more than 6% of all the cases the U.S. Supreme Court heard during his tenure as solicitor general. Bursch returned to private practice at Warner Norcross & Judd in December 2013, and founded his own law firm in 2016, Bursch Law. On April 28, 2015, Bursch was one of three attorneys who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges arguing state bans on same-sex marriage to be constitutional. Bursch lost, resulting in the legalization of same-sex marriage everywhere in the United States. Obergefell is considered one of the most important civil rights cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in modern history. He also argued before the Supreme Court in R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a case involving employment discrimination where an employee was fired for being transgender. The case was consolidated with Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia at the Supreme Court, where the employers lost and gay and transgender people were recognized as protected under Title VII sex-discrimination protections in employment. Currently, Bursch works as senior counsel at the conservative Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom and is active in the Federalist Society. The ADF focuses on curtailing rights for LGBT people, expanding religious practice in public institutions, and restricting access to abortion and contraception. Bursch is involved in a number of cases aimed at restricting the rights of transgender students, for example in the appeal of Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corporation. (en)
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- Western Michigan University (en)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (en)
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- John J. Bursch (born 1972) was the 10th Michigan Solicitor General. He was appointed by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on February 28, 2011. Prior to being Michigan Solicitor General, Bursch served as chair of the Appellate Practice and Public-Affairs Litigation Groups at Warner Norcross & Judd. Bursch argued in more than 6% of all the cases the U.S. Supreme Court heard during his tenure as solicitor general. Bursch returned to private practice at Warner Norcross & Judd in December 2013, and founded his own law firm in 2016, Bursch Law. (en)
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