Chief Judge Srinivasan, from 2002 to 2007, has served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. Sri served as the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States from 2011 to 2013. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in May 2013 and became Chief Judge in February 2020. He is the first Indian of South Asian descent to lead federal circuit court.
Following graduation, Sri served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Solicitor General, and as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. In 1998, he joined the law firm O’Melveny & Myers. In 2007 he returned to O’Melveny & Myers as a partner, later becoming chair of the firm’s appellate and Supreme Court practice. He has taught appellate advocacy at Harvard Law School and currently teaches a seminar on civil rights statutes and the Supreme Court at Georgetown University Law Center.
Chief Judge Srinivasan graduated from Stanford University in 1989 and Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1995.