John Rau

The Honourable John Rau SC
Rau in 2015
Deputy Premier of South Australia
In office 7 February 2011 – 19 March 2018
Premier	Mike Rann Jay Weatherill
Preceded by	Kevin Foley
Succeeded by	Vickie Chapman
Deputy Leader of the South Australian Labor Party
In office 7 February 2011 – 9 April 2018
Leader	Mike Rann Jay Weatherill
Preceded by	Kevin Foley
Succeeded by	Susan Close
Attorney-General of South Australia
In office 25 March 2010 – 19 March 2018
Premier	Mike Rann Jay Weatherill
Preceded by	Michael Atkinson
Succeeded by	Vickie Chapman
Member of the South Australian Parliament for Enfield
In office 9 February 2002 – 17 December 2018
Preceded by	New District
Succeeded by	Andrea Michaels
Personal details
Born	John Robert Rau (1959-03-20) 20 March 1959 (age 65) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Political party	Australian Labor Party (SA)

John Robert Rau SC (born 20 March 1959) is an Australian barrister and politician. He was the 12th Deputy Premier of South Australia from 2011 to 2018 and 48th Attorney-General of South Australia from 2010 to 2018 for the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party in the Weatherill cabinet. Rau was the Labor member of the House of Assembly seat of Enfield from the 2002 election^[1] until announcing his intention to retire from Parliament on 10 December 2018,^[2] and submitting his resignation on 17 December 2018.^[3]