Drew S. Days, III
| Drew Days | |
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| Solicitor General of the United States | |
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In office June 7, 1993 – July 1, 1996 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | William Bryson (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Walter Dellinger (Acting) |
| Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights | |
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In office 1977–1980 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Stanley Pottinger |
| Succeeded by | William Reynolds |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Drew Saunders Days III August 29, 1941 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Hamilton College, New York (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Drew Saunders Days III (born August 29, 1941) is an American lawyer, who served as United States Solicitor General from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. He also served as the first African American Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1980. He is the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School, assuming that post in 1992, and joining the Yale Law faculty in 1981. Since 1997, he has also headed the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP and was of counsel at the firm's Washington, D.C. office until his retirement from the firm in December, 2011. He earned his law degree at Yale Law School in 1966. He has been admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, and in the states of Illinois and New York.
He graduated from New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, New York, before going on to earn an undergraduate degree from Hamilton College, and a law degree from Yale Law School. Upon graduation from law school, he briefly practiced law in Chicago, Illinois, before becoming a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras.
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