Harris graduated
summa cum laude from
Princeton University with a
Bachelor of Arts in 2003 with membership in
Phi Beta Kappa. She then went to England and earned a
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) from the
University of Cambridge in 2004 before earning her
Juris Doctor,
magna cum laude, from
Harvard Law School in 2009. Harris later returned to the University of Cambridge and earned her
Ph.D. in 2014. After graduating from Harvard, Harris became a
law clerk for Judge
Sandra Lynch of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 2009 to 2010, then clerked for Judge
Laurence Silberman of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2015 to 2016, she was a law clerk for Justice
Clarence Thomas at the
U.S. Supreme Court. While in private practice, she argued before the
Supreme Court of the United States in five cases:
Salinas v. United States Railroad Retirement Board (2021),
Carr v. Saul (2021),
Egbert v. Boule (2022),
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. (2023), and
Bartenwerfer v. Buckley (2023). On January 16, 2025, President
Donald Trump appointed Harris as acting
United States Solicitor General while his nominee for the position,
Dean John Sauer, awaited Senate confirmation. == References ==