Craig Rust

Craig Rust currently serves as a Supervising Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice, a position held since September 2022 after previously working as a Deputy Attorney General in the same department from May 2015 to September 2020. Prior experience includes a Law Clerk position for the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from September 2020 to September 2022 and multiple roles as an Associate at Baker Donelson and McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP. Additional legal experience includes clerkships at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and externships with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Attorney's Office. Craig Rust earned a Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.