| Sri Srinivasan | |
|---|---|
| Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office August 26, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Neal Katyal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 23, 1967 |
Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan (born February 23, 1967) is the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.[1] He has argued 18 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and was also a lecturer at Harvard Law School. He has previously been reported to be under consideration by the Obama administration to be nominated to one of the two current judicial vacancies on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Srinivasan also is known for having represented former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010.
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A native of India, Srinivasan grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the child of parents who worked for the University of Kansas.[2] Srinivasan graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, where he played basketball.[2]
Srinivasan earned a bachelor's degree in 1989 from Stanford University and then earned an MBA in 1995 from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a law degree that same year from Stanford Law School.[2]
After law school, Srinivasan worked as a law clerk for United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III and then was a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.[2]
After his clerkships, Srinivasan worked for the law firm O'Melveny & Myers and then joined the office of the United States Solicitor General, where he worked from 2002 until 2007. He rejoined O'Melveny & Myers in 2007 as a partner, and he currently is the firm's hiring partner for its Washington, D.C. office.[3] He made the news in 2010 for representing Skilling in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which challenged the "honest services" fraud statute and also the fact that Skilling's trial was never moved from Houston.[4] The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Skilling on the "honest services" fraud statute, but rejected the trial location argument. [5]
Srinivasan also is a lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches a course on Supreme Court and appellate advocacy.[6]
On August 26, 2011, Srinivasan was appointed to replace Neal Katyal as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.[1]
As of December 2011, Srinivasan had argued 18 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier in his career, he also performed pro bono work for presidential candidate Al Gore during the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election.[7]
In March 2010, National Review blogger Ed Whelan wrote that the Obama administration had been considering nominating Srinivasan to one of two vacancies on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and that the idea of nominating Srinivasan had run into some opposition from some Obama supporters because of Srinivasan's work in the U.S. Solicitor General's office during the Bush administration.[8]
Srinivasan lives in Arlington, Virginia.