Todd Kim
Todd Kim is an American attorney who served as the first Solicitor General for the District of Columbia. He was appointed by Attorney General Robert J. Spagnoletti to be responsible for all of the District's appellate litigation before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. In February 2014, President Obama nominated Kim to a seat on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, but his nomination never received a final vote in the Senate. On April 30, 2015, President Obama re-nominated Kim to the position, but the Senate did not act on that nomination either.
Prior to becoming Solicitor General, Kim was an appellate attorney for the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division.
Kim graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1997, where he was an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in biology from Harvard College in 1994. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Judith Rogers on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
On February 22, 2004, he also appeared as the first contestant on a short-run Who Wants to Be a Millionaire spin-off game show called Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire, where he won $500,000 after being helped to the correct answer by Nancy Christy, the only female to win $1,000,000 on the American version of "Millionaire". She was called upon while serving as a Wise Man lifeline. Kim decided to walk away on his $1,000,000 question.
In 2017, his final year as solicitor general, Kim argued on behalf of the District in the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Wesby. In January 2018, he became a partner in Reed Smith's appellate practice.
