Jonathan Thomas Skrmetti (born January 4, 1977) is an American attorney and public official who has served as the 28th attorney general of Tennessee since 2022. Born and raised in Connecticut, and educated at George Washington University, Oxford University, and Harvard Law School, Skrmetti worked as a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee, both in private practice and as a federal prosecutor in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. He subsequently served as Tennessee's chief deputy attorney general and as chief counsel to Governor Bill Lee, prior to his appointment as attorney general.

Skrmetti was born in New London, Connecticut, on January 4, 1977, and grew up in Mystic, Connecticut. He earned degrees from George Washington University and Hertford College, Oxford. While earning his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Skrmetti previously clerked for Judge Steven Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. As an adjunct professor, he taught cyberlaw at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey's School of Law. Before entering private practice, Skrmetti served as a federal prosecutor for almost a decade, first with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Memphis from 2011 to 2014. Skrmetti was also a partner at Butler Snow LLP in Memphis.

He was one of eleven Tennessee attorneys who applied to fill the vacancy on the Tennessee Supreme Court when Justice Cornelia Clark died in 2021, before serving as Chief Counsel to Governor Bill Lee from December 2021 to August 2022.

Jonathan Skrmetti was Chief Deputy Attorney General under Herbert Slatery from December 2018 through December 2021.

Skrmetti was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve an eight-year term on August 10, 2022, and was sworn in on September 1, 2022. Tennessee is the only state in the country where the state Supreme Court appoints the attorney general as a non-partisan member of the judicial branch.

In his role as Attorney General and Reporter of Tennessee, Skrmetti has instituted a strategic litigation unit with ten attorneys to focus on pending litigation involving the federal government, various Tennessee municipalities, and to focus on corporate activity within the state.

On May 31, 2023, Skrmetti filed suit against twenty-one named and ten unnamed manufacturers of products using PFAS. The suit focuses on the manufacture and sale of AFFF (aqueous film-forming foam) throughout the state rather than on the various consumer products which contain PFAS. Skrmetti contends that the manufacturers not only knew about the risk PFAS pose to both organisms and the environment, but that they also concealed the level of harm the chemicals could cause in order to raise their profits. The suit further claims that some of the named companies attempted to protect themselves from liability through fraud.