Attorney General Kris Kobach was raised in Topeka, Kansas, where he graduated from Washburn Rural High School. He completed his undergraduate studies in government at Harvard University, graduating first in his department and summa cum laude. A Marshall Scholar, he received his Ph.D. in politics from the University of Oxford. Kobach received his J.D. from Yale Law School, serving as notes development editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Kobach clerked for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and shortly thereafter became a professor of constitutional law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law, serving from 1996 to 2011. During that period, Kobach received a White House Fellowship from President George W. Bush and served in the United States Department of Justice under Attorney General John Ashcroft as Counsel to the Attorney General.

Kobach served as the 31st Kansas Secretary of State from 2011 to 2019. In 2017, President Trump tapped him to lead the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.

As an attorney in private practice, Kobach litigated some of the most high-profile cases in the country, including defending statutes and ordinances against the ACLU on multiple occasions. In 2012, he brought the first challenge to President Obama’s DACA amnesty on behalf of 10 ICE agents. In 2022, he represented 36 members of the Air Force and Air National Guard who were denied a religious exemption to the Biden vaccine mandate.

Kobach was elected as Kansas’s 45th Attorney General in November 2022. As Attorney General, he led and personally argued multiple challenges to the illegal actions of the Biden Administration, including obtaining an injunction stopping Biden’s illegal Title IX regulation that would have opened women’s locker rooms and facilities on college campuses to biological males. He also stopped the Biden Administration’s regulation that provided Obamacare benefits to illegal aliens.

In 2024, the nation’s Republican attorneys general elected Kobach Chairman of the Republican Attorney General Association.

He lives near Lecompton with his wife, Heather, and their five children.