Srikanth Srinivasan

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American federal judge (born 1967)

This article is about the United States federal judge. For the technology journalist, see Sreenath Sreenivasan .

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan (/ˈsriː ˌsriːniˈvɑːsən/ ; born February 23, 1967) is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit .

Before becoming a federal judge, Srinivasan served as principal deputy solicitor general of the United States and argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court . He was also a partner at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers and was a lecturer at Harvard Law School .

In 2016, Srinivasan was considered by President Barack Obama as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States after the death of Antonin Scalia ; Obama nominated Merrick Garland instead.

Early life and education

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Srinivasan was born on February 23, 1967, in Chandigarh , India . His parents were Brahmin Iyer Hindu Tamils . His father, Thirunankovil Padmanabhan Srinivasan, was from Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram , a village near Tirunelveli , Tamil Nadu . Srinivasan's family first came to the United States in the late 1960s when his father was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley . After briefly returning to India, the family permanently immigrated to the United States in 1971 when Srinivasan was four years old.

They settled in Lawrence, Kansas , where his father became a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas . His mother, Saroja, taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and later worked at the University of Kansas's computer science department.

Srinivasan graduated from Lawrence High School in 1985, where he played on the school basketball team alongside future NBA star Danny Manning . He then attended Stanford University , graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction . From 1989 to 1991, Srinivasan worked as a management analyst for the San Mateo County county manager's office. He then jointly attended Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business , receiving a JD–MBA in 1995. As a law student, he was an editor of the _Stanford Law Review _ and graduated with Order of the Coif honors.

Career

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After law school, Srinivasan was a law clerk for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996. He did a one-year fellowship in the Department of Justice's Office of the Solicitor General from 1996 to 1997, then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor from 1997 to 1998.

From 1998 to 2002, Srinivasan was in private practice as an associate at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers. He then returned to the Office of the Solicitor General, where he worked from 2002 until 2007. He rejoined O'Melveny & Myers in 2007 as a partner and was the firm's hiring partner for its Washington, D.C. office. While at the firm, he represented ExxonMobil for accusations of human rights abuses by hired military personnel at an Indonesian gas plant. In 2010, he represented former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which challenged the "honest services" fraud statute and also that Skilling's trial was never moved from Houston . The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Skilling on the "honest services fraud " statute, but rejected the trial location argument.

Srinivasan was also a lecturer at Harvard Law School , where he co-taught a course on Supreme Court and appellate advocacy. In 2005 he received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence from the [United States Department of Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense "United States Department of Defense"

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