Donald Beaton Verrilli Jr. (born June 29, 1957) is an American lawyer who served as the solicitor general of the United States from 2011 to 2016.

He is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Munger, Tolles & Olson and a lecturer at Columbia University Law School, his alma mater.

[3] Verrill graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and graduated with honors from Columbia Law School in 1983 with a Juris Doctor, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar, and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

[6][7] Verrilli was appointed by President Barack Obama to become an associate deputy attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice and served in this post from February 2009 to January 2010.

In Montejo v. Louisiana, he unsuccessfully argued that his client's Sixth Amendment rights had been violated when he was questioned after having counsel appointed for him.

On January 26, 2011, President Obama nominated Verrilli to succeed Elena Kagan as Solicitor General of the United States.

[18][19][20][21] However, he was vindicated on June 28, 2012, when the court ruled that the individual mandate and most of the Act was constitutional,[22][23] albeit as a tax and not as an exercise of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.

[27] In 1988, Verrilli married Gail W. Laster,[2] who is director of the Office of Consumer Protection at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).