ACS and SCAS Present: Former North Carolina Solicitor General Ryan Park

Ryan Park will join UChicago ACS and the Supreme Court and Appellate Society to discuss his tenure as North Carolina’s Solicitor General.

Ryan Park co-leads McGuireWoods’ North Carolina Appellate Litigation team and is a core member of the firm’s Appeals and Issues and State Attorneys General Investigations & Enforcement teams. He served as Solicitor General of South Carolina from 2022 to 2025, and represented the University of North Carolina before the Supreme Court in SFFA v. University of North Carolina. He clerked at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justices David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as for Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal and holds a B.A. with distinction in economics and political science from Amherst College.