Sri Srinivasan

Padmanabhan Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan (English pronunciation: /ˈsriː sriːniˈvɑːsən/; born February 23, 1967) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The United States Senate confirmed Srinivasan by a vote of 97–0 on May 23, 2013. Before his confirmation, Srinivasan served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and has argued 25 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Srinivasan has also lectured at Harvard Law School, and acted as legal representative for former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, Skilling v. United States (2010). In February 2016, The New York Times and NPR identified him as a potential nominee to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia as Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Early life and education

Srinivasan was born Padmanabhan Srikanth Srinivasan in Chandigarh, India. His father hailed from Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram, a village near Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. His family, including two younger sisters, emigrated in the late 1960s to Lawrence, Kansas. His father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas, and his mother taught at the Kansas City Art Institute and later worked at the University of Kansas computer science department. Srinivasan graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, where he played basketball, sharing the court with future NBA star Danny Manning.