15 Facts About Kannon Shanmugam

Kannon Kumar Shanmugam was born on November 15,1972 and is an American lawyer known for his litigation at the US Supreme Court.

Kannon Shanmugam previously served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.

Kannon Shanmugam was born on November 15,1972, in Lawrence, Kansas.

Kannon Shanmugam's father, Kumarasamy "Sam" Shanmugam, was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Kansas for over 30 years.

Kannon Shanmugam graduated from Lawrence High School as co-valedictorian in 1989 at age 16.

Kannon Shanmugam then went to Harvard University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Independent.

Kannon Shanmugam won a Marshall Scholarship and spent the next two years in England doing graduate study in classics at Keble College, Oxford, receiving a Master of Letters degree in 1995.

Kannon Shanmugam then returned to the United States to attend Harvard Law School, where he was an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review and argued the case for the winning side in the Ames Moot Court Competition.

In 2004, Kannon Shanmugam became an assistant to the US Solicitor General, where he worked for four years and argued eight cases before the Supreme Court.

Kannon Shanmugam was the only lawyer to have joined the firm as a lateral partner in 32 years.

Kannon Shanmugam has served as co-chair of the American Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee and is a past president of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court.

Kannon Shanmugam is the only practicing American attorney who is an honorary bencher of the Inner Temple, one of the four English Inns of Court.

Kannon Shanmugam taught a course on Supreme Court advocacy as an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and served on the board of trustees of Thurgood Marshall Academy.

Kannon Shanmugam is a longtime member of the Federalist Society.

Kannon Shanmugam argued on behalf of the victims of the USS Cole bombing in Republic of Sudan v Harrison.