Elizabeth Prelogar

Prelogar was raised in Boise, Idaho.[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Emory University, where she was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, her Master of Arts from the University of St Andrews, and her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. She is fluent in Russian. While at Harvard, she won an Overseas Press Club scholarship to study Russian media and censorship.[2]

Prelogar began her career as a law clerk to Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and later to Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was then an associate at Hogan Lovells. From 2014 to 2019, Prelogar was an Assistant to the Solicitor General. She was briefly detailed to the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election. In 2020, she joined Cooley LLP as a partner. She was named Principal Deputy Solicitor General by President Joe Biden in January 2021.[3]

Prelogar was Miss Idaho in 2004.[4]

• Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project
• Appearances on C-SPAN