Sarah M. Harris is an American lawyer who served as the actingsolicitor general of the United States in early 2025.

Harris graduatedsumma cum laude fromPrinceton University with aBachelor of Arts in 2003 with membership inPhi Beta Kappa. She then went to England and earned aMaster of Philosophy (M.Phil.) from theUniversity of Cambridge in 2004 before earning herJuris Doctor,magna cum laude, fromHarvard Law School in 2009. Harris later returned to the University of Cambridge and earned herPh.D. in 2014.^[1]

After graduating from Harvard, Harris became alaw clerk for JudgeSandra Lynch of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 2009 to 2010, then clerked for JudgeLaurence Silberman of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2015 to 2016, she was a law clerk for JusticeClarence Thomas at theU.S. Supreme Court.^[1]

Harris has been a partner atWilliams & Connolly. Before joining Williams & Connolly, she served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’sOffice of Legal Counsel.^[2]

While in private practice, she argued before theSupreme 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), andBartenwerfer v. Buckley (2023).^[3]

On January 16, 2025, PresidentDonald Trump appointed Harris as actingUnited States Solicitor General while his nominee for the position,Dean John Sauer, awaited Senate confirmation.^[4]

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