Gregory G. Garre
United States Solicitors General
Gregory George Garre (born November 1, 1964) is an American lawyer who served as the 44th U.S. solicitor general from June 19, 2008, to January 16, 2009. He is currently a partner at Latham & Watkins, a private law firm.
Life and education
Garre was born in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Barrington, Illinois, where he attended Barrington public schools. He graduated cum laude in 1987 from Dartmouth College, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar, with a B.A. in government. In 1991, he graduated with high honors from George Washington University Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of The George Washington Law Review and was selected to Order of the Coif.
Garre clerked for Chief Judge Anthony Joseph Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1991–92), and then for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court (1992–93). He served as a pallbearer at Rehnquist's funeral in September 2005.
Career
Early career
He then went into private practice with the Washington, D.C. law firm Hogan & Hartson from 1993 to 2000. In September 2000 Garre joined the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice as Assistant to the Solicitor General. In this capacity, in August 2002, he represented the government at Hamdi v.
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