Drew S. Days, III
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Drew Saunders Days III, U.S. lawyer, He served as United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996. From 1977 to 1980, he served as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton.
He is currently the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School, assuming that post in 1992, and joining the Yale Law faculty in 1981. Since 1997, he has also headed the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He has been admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, and in the states of Illinois and New York.
He graduated from New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, before going on to earn an undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, and a law degree from Yale. Upon graduation from law school, he briefly practiced law in Chicago, Illinois, before becoming a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. Returning to the United States, he became First Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City.
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| Preceded by Kenneth Starr |
Solicitor General 1993–1996 |
Succeeded by Walter E. Dellinger III |
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| Bristow • Phillips • Goode • Jenks • Chapman • Taft • Aldrich • Maxwell • Conrad • Richards • Hoyt • Bowers • Lehmann • Bullit • Davis • King • Frierson • Beck • Mitchell • Hughes • Thacher • Biggs • Reed • Jackson • Biddle • Fahy • McGrath • Perlman • Cummings • Sobeloff • Rankin • Cox • Marshall • Griswold • Bork • McCree • Lee • Fried • Starr • Days • Dellinger • Waxman • Olson • Clement |
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