1. Jeffrey Sutton worked as a paralegal in Washington, DC, and spent a summer at an archaeological dig site in Jordan as part of a United States Department of State cultural exchange program, then returned to Ohio to be a high school history teacher and varsity soccer coach at the Columbus Academy, a private school in Gahanna, Ohio.
Jeffrey Sutton received his Juris Doctor from Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law in 1990.
Jeffrey Sutton then clerked for Judge Thomas Meskill of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1990 to 1991.
Scalia later said that Jeffrey Sutton was "one of the very best law clerks [he] ever had".
Jeffrey Sutton was in private practice in Columbus at the law firm Jones Day from 1992 to 1995 and 1998 to 2003, serving as Solicitor General of Ohio from 1995 to 1998.
Jeffrey Sutton has served as an adjunct professor of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law since 1994 and more recently as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School.
Jeffrey Sutton teaches state constitutional law, a subject in which he is particularly interested and about which he has written extensively.
In 2007, Jeffrey Sutton dissented in part when the Sixth Circuit held that a police officer did not have qualified immunity for arresting a speaker for using foul language at a town meeting.
In June 2011, Jeffrey Sutton became the first judge appointed by a Republican to rule in favor of the health care mandate in President Barack Obama's Health Care law.
On July 8,2023, Jeffrey Sutton temporarily halted a lower court injunction on Tennessee's law banning gender affirming care for minors.
Jeffrey Sutton reasoned that there is no "deeply rooted" historical or traditional evidence that the treatment is allowed.
Since joining the bench, Judge Jeffrey Sutton has been one of the most prolific feeder judges, sending a number of his law clerks to the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Sutton chaired the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2009 to 2012, and served on the committee beginning in 2005.
Jeffrey Sutton went on to chair the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure from 2012 to 2015.