Drew S. Days, III

Drew Saunders Days III ( born August 29, 1941) is an American lawyer and former United States Solicitor General.

Biography

After attending the High School of New Rochelle, he studied at Hamilton College and earned a Bachelor of Arts there in 1963 (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Yale University, he finished in 1966 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). Immediately afterwards, he was admitted as an attorney in the state of Illinois.

After a stay in Honduras as a member of the Peace Corps from 1967 to 1969 he was 1969-1977 First Assistant to the Legal Adviser for legal defense and education fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in New York City. In 1970 he was also admitted as a lawyer in New York State. During this time, he was from 1973 to 1975 also professor of law at Temple University in Pennsylvania.

In 1977 he was an employee in the Ministry of Justice of the United States, where he was assistant to the U.S. Attorney General to 1980 Head of the Department of Civil Law. He was the first African American who held this office. Since 1981 he has been a professor of law at Yale and worked there since 1992 has held the Alfred M. Rankin Professorship.

In May 1993 Days was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Solicitor General, and held this office a little more than three years until July 1996.

Drew S. Days is also active in several other organizations and associations and is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, a board member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and curator ( Trustee ) of Hamilton College. He is also a Fellow of both the American Bar Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.