Sri Srinivasan
American United States Circuit Judge
Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan (; 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
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.
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