Kannon Shanmugam

Shanmugam was born on November 15, 1972, in Lawrence, Kansas. Both his parents had immigrated to the United States from India in the late 1960s. Shanmugam graduated from Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian in 1989 at age 16. He then went to Harvard University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Independent. He graduated in 1998 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude. ==Career==

After law school, Shanmugam was a law clerk for judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1998 to 1999, In 2019, Shanmugam moved to the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to become the managing partner of the firm's Washington, D.C. office, and chair of its newly established Supreme Court and appellate practice. Shanmugam has argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. Most notably, in 2020, he argued on behalf of Seila Law in the landmark case Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which held that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutional. He also argued on behalf of the victims of the USS Cole bombing in Republic of Sudan v. Harrison. On May 29, 2025, Harvard University announced that Shanmugam had been elected to the Harvard Corporation. == See also ==