Aaron J. Silletto

Aaron J. Silletto is a Louisville attorney and a lay nominee for the LCMS Board of Directors, Central Region, standing on the slate as a delegate of the Synod's Indiana District, which takes in the Louisville-area congregations of northern Kentucky. He is a member of Concordia Lutheran Church in Louisville.

He serves in the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General in Frankfort, where he has been Executive Director of the Office of Civil and Environmental Law since January 2024, having joined as that office's Deputy Executive Director in May 2020. Before entering public service he was a partner at the Louisville firm Goldberg Simpson, where his civil-litigation practice spanned tort and personal-injury defense, insurance coverage and bad faith, criminal defense, constitutional law and appeals, and general civil litigation.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky and a Juris Doctor from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of The Kentucky Constitution: Text and History (Carolina Academic Press), the first systematic treatment of the 1891 state constitution, and he teaches as an adjunct professor at both the University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law, where since 2019 he has taught a course he developed in Kentucky constitutional law, and the University of Kentucky's Rosenberg College of Law, where he teaches state constitutional law. He is a contributor to the Federalist Society, an attorney allied with Alliance Defending Freedom, and a member of the Lutheran Legal League.