Career
After graduating from Harvard Law School,Purcell clerked for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court David Souter and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David S. Tatel. [3]
From 2009 to 2010,Purcell served in the United States Department of Homeland Security,where he worked to challenge Arizona's immigration law implemented during the administration of Jan Brewer. [4] Prior to his appointment to the office of the Solicitor General,he was an associate at Seattle law firm Perkins Coie,where he worked on appellate matters. Purcell has litigation experience and knowledge as in the areas of constitutional issues,campaign financing,and environmental law,and administrative law. [5]
Solicitor general of Washington
Purcell succeeded retiring solicitor general,Maureen Hart. [6] Purcell is a member of the King County Bar Association,and was awarded the Friend of the Legal Profession Award by the association in 2017. [7]
Travel ban case
Under Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson,Purcell led the state's challenge to Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769,which restricted travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority nations. [8] Purcell argued the state's case before Judge James Robart of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. [9] [10] [11]
After the successful halt of President Trump's first travel ban, [12] [13] Ferguson,Purcell and Robart were named one of the most influential Seattleites of 2017 by Seattle Magazine. [14] Purcell has spoken about how the travel ban had a personal impact on his family because his wife is the daughter of Iranian immigrants who fled their country in the 1970s. [15]
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