Mr. Harris is the General Counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Harris joins CEI from law firm Gordon Rees, where he served as legal counsel and helped clients with regulatory compliance issues and litigation as Counsel. From 2018 to 2020, Harris was Special Counsel at the international the firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP, where he represented global business clients in legal concerns, including litigations, commercial disputes, employment and labor law, and advising on regulatory compliance requirements. Prior to Hunton, in 2016, Harris was a Senior Advisor to the Secretary and the Director of OFCCP at the U.S. Department of Labor and consultant with Fulcrum IT and Government Consulting Solutions at the SEC – where he advised on Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and JOBS Act, as well as EDGAR filing and disclosure requirements. From 2011 to 2013, he was the Executive Director of the Public Employee Relations Board of D.C., a quasi-judicial, independent agency that resolves labor-management disputes between agencies and labor. In 2007, Mr. Harris was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the Director of the Community Relations Service (CRS) at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). As the Director of CRS, Mr. Harris managed the Agency in carrying out its Congressional mandate to work with communities across the United States in resolving conflicts and in employing strategies to prevent and respond to violence and destruction of property. In addition, he served as Deputy Chief of the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at DOJ. Preceding to his tenure at DOJ, Mr. Harris was a partner at LeClair Ryan and an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Mr. Harris received an Associate of Arts in liberal arts, a bachelor’s degree in history from Hampden-Sydney College, a Juris Doctorate from Washington & Lee University, and data privacy certification from Cornell University.