Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Obama nominates Srikanth Srinivasan to US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama nominated Indian American Srikanth Srinivasan to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on June 11.

“Caitlin Halligan and Sri Srinivasan are dedicated public servants who will bring their tremendous experience, intellect, and integrity to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,” President Obama said.  “This important court is often called the Nation’s second-highest court, and it stands more than a quarter vacant ... Mr. Srinivasan will be a trailblazer and, like Ms. Halligan, will serve the court with distinction and excellence.”

Srikanth “Sri” Srinivasan is the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States.  He is a highly-respected appellate advocate who has spent a distinguished career litigating before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals, both on behalf of the United States and in private practice.

Mr. Srinivasan began his legal career by serving as a law clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1995 to 1996.  He then spent a year as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General before clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during the Supreme Court’s 1997-98 term.  He was an associate at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Washington, D.C., from 1998 until 2002.  In 2002, he returned to the Solicitor General’s Office as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, representing the United States in litigation before the Supreme Court.  For his work, he received the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Furthering U.S. National Security in 2003 and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence in 2005.  In 2007, Mr. Srinivasan became a partner with O’Melveny & Myers LLP.  In 2011, he was named the Chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group.  He was named as the Principal Deputy Solicitor General in August 2011. 

Mr. Srinivasan is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading appellate and Supreme Court advocates.  He has argued before the Supreme Court twenty times, drafted briefs in several dozen additional cases, and has also served as lead counsel in numerous cases before the federal and state appellate courts.  He has also served as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, where he taught a class on appellate advocacy.
 
Mr. Srinivasan was born in Chandigarh, India, and grew up in Lawrence, Kansas.  He received his B.A. with honors and distinction in 1989 from Stanford University and his J.D. with distinction in 1995 from Stanford Law School, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as an editor of the Stanford Law Review.  He also holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which he received along with his J.D. in 1995.

 

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