AssociateNathaniel M. Fouch

Overview

Nathaniel M. Fouch is an associate in SS+D’s Litigation Department. He honed his legal research and writing skills as a judicial law clerk at all three levels of the state judiciary and now brings a wealth of knowledge to bear in serving his clients as both a counselor and an advocate. Nathaniel is admitted to practice in Ohio and Minnesota.

Professional Experience/Focus Area

Nathaniel is a proud graduate of Berea College, in Kentucky, and the University of St. Thomas School of Law, cum laude, in Minnesota, where he served as the Symposium Editor for the University of St. Thomas Law Journal. Prior to joining SS+D in 2024, he served as a judicial law clerk to Justice Pat DeWine of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Nathaniel is passionate about education and professional identity formation and is also an adjunct professor of political science at Sinclair Community College and a mentor to law students and young attorneys.

Nathaniel is an active member of the local and state bar, serving as chairman of the Dayton Bar Association Editorial Board, founder and president of the Dayton Catholic Lawyers Guild, a Barrister of the Carl D. Kessler Inn of Court, and a former board member of the St. Thomas More Lawyers Guild of Greater Cincinnati. He has also been selected as a Fellow of the Napa Legal Institute’s Good Counselor Project (2024) and the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding (2025) and is a graduate of the Ohio State Bar Association Leadership Academy (2023) and Dayton Bar Association Leadership Development Class (2023).

Nathaniel is an independent scholar of state constitutional law. His article, “A Document of Independent Force”: Towards a Robust Ohio Constitutionalism, 49 U. Dayton L. Rev. 1 (2023), was cited by the Supreme Court of Ohio in its landmark decision, State ex rel. Cincinnati Enquirer v. Bloom, 2024-Ohio-5029, ¶ 21. His article, Who’s Afraid of the Ohio Constitution?, was featured as the cover story for the Ohio Lawyer magazine in October 2023. In addition to state constitutional law, Nathaniel has also written and taught legal history, appellate law, and religious liberty and conscience rights.

Personal

Nathaniel lives in Kettering, Ohio with his wife, Theresa, and two toddler-aged sons, with whom he can frequently be found at local libraries, hiking trails, the farmer’s market, and museums. They are parishioners of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Dayton. In his “spare time,” Nathaniel enjoys reading, writing, travel, and genealogy.