Sri Srinivasan
Sri Srinivasan | |
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Official portrait, 2013 | |
| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
| Assumed office February 11, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Merrick Garland |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
| Assumed office May 24, 2013 | |
| Nominated by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | A. Raymond Randolph |
| Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States | |
| In office August 26, 2011 – May 24, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Neal Katyal |
| Succeeded by | Ian Heath Gershengorn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Padmanabhan Srikanth Srinivasan February 23, 1967 Chandigarh, India |
| Education | Stanford University (BA, JD–MBA) |
Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan (/ˈsriː ˌsriːniˈvɑːsən/; born February 23, 1967) is an Indian-born American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as the chief United States circuit 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.