# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/drew-s-days-iii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:59.213Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/drew-s-days-iii"
name: "Drew S. Days, III"
slug: "drew-s-days-iii"
description: "Drew Saunders Days III was an American legal scholar who served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1993 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. He also served as the first African American Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1980. He was the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School, assuming that post in 1992, and joining the Yale Law faculty in 1981. From 1997 to 2011, he headed the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP and was of counsel at the firm's Washington, D.C. office until his retirement from the firm in December, 2011. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at Yale Law School in 1966. He was admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, and in the states of Illinois and New York."
tagline: "American academic (1941–2020)"
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birthDate: "1941-08-29"
deathDate: "2020-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump