Neal K. Katyal
| Neal Katyal | |
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| Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States | |
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In office June 9, 2011 – August 26, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Leondra Kruger (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Sri Srinivasan |
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In office February 3, 2009 – May 17, 2010 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Daryl Joseffer |
| Succeeded by | Leondra Kruger (Acting) |
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Solicitor General of the United States Acting |
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In office May 17, 2010 – June 9, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Elena Kagan |
| Succeeded by | Don Verrilli |
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Neal Kumar Katyal March 12, 1970 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Dartmouth College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is an American lawyer and partner at Hogan Lovells, as well as Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served in as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department.
Katyal has argued more Supreme Court cases than any other minority group lawyer in American history.
Katyal was born in the United States on March 12, 1970, to PunjabiIndian immigrant parents. His mother is a pediatrician and his father, who died in 2005, was an engineer. Katyal's sister is also an attorney, who currently teaches law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He studied at Loyola Academy, a Jesuit Catholic school in Wilmette, Illinois. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament.
Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and political opinion journals in 1995 and 1996. After receiving his J.D. degree in 1995, Katyal clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
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