Donald Verrilli Jr.

Don Verrilli


46th Solicitor General of the United States
In office June 9, 2011 – June 25, 2016
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Neal Katyal Sri Srinivasan Ian Gershengorn
Preceded by	Neal Katyal (Acting)
Succeeded by	Ian Gershengorn (Acting)
Personal details
Born	Donald Beaton Verrilli Jr. (1957-06-29) June 29, 1957 (age 59) New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Education	Yale University (BA) Columbia University (JD)

Donald Beaton Verrilli Jr. (born June 29, 1957) is an American lawyer who served as the Solicitor General of the United States from 2011 into 2016. He was sworn into the post on June 9, 2011. On June 6, 2011, the United States Senate confirmed Verrilli in a 72–16 vote. President Barack Obama had nominated Verrilli to the post on January 26, 2011. Verrilli previously served in the Obama administration as the Associate Deputy United States Attorney General, and as Deputy Counsel to the President.

Verrilli was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1957 to Donald and Rose Marie Verrilli.

He received his B.A. cum laude from Yale University (1979) and his J.D. with honors from Columbia Law School (1983), where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar, and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

After graduating from law school, Verrilli served as law clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983 to 1984 and then for Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1984 to 1985.

Verrilli was a fellow at Columbia University Law School from 1985 to 1986. He then joined Ennis Friedman & Bersoff in Washington, working there from 1986 to 1988. He joined Jenner & Block LLP in 1988 as an associate, and eventually became a partner. While working at Jenner & Block, Verrilli also was an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law (spring 1995) and Georgetown University Law Center (from 1992 to 2008).