Sundeep Iyer will succeed Feigenbaum as Solicitor General of New Jersey

Sundeep Iyer, a senior member of Attorney General Jennifer Davenport’s leadership team, will become New Jersey’s solicitor general following Jeremy Feigenbaum’s departure on September 10.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill is expected to formally announce Iyer’s appointment at a later date, but the choice was disclosed in a Department of Law and Public Safety internal email announcing Feigenbaum’s exit.  He will become the second Solicitor General in the state’s history; the post was created in 2020.

Iyer, 36, currently serves as executive assistant attorney general under Davenport. He previously served as chief counsel to Attorney General Matt Platkin and as director of the Division on Civil Rights.

Deputy Solicitor General Michael Zuckerman will replace Iyer as Executive Assistant Attorney General.

The solicitor general serves as New Jersey’s chief appellate lawyer, overseeing appeals and representing the state before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A New Jersey native and the son of immigrants from India, Iyer graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices David Souter and Stephen Breyer, for Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit —making Iyer one of a small number of lawyers to clerk for three justices.

While in private practice at Hogan Lovells US LLP, Iyer served as special counsel to the State of Minnesota following George Floyd’s death.

Iyer was part of the legal team that secured Derek Chauvin’s conviction on second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter charges, briefing, arguing, and winning key motions for the state at trial.

He was also part of the legal team that secured an injunction against President Trump’s travel ban and defended it before the U.S. Supreme Court.  He represented federal death-row inmates challenging the Trump administration’s lethal-injection protocol and served as a lead attorney for eight organizations contesting Trump’s rollback of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument.

In December 2025, Iyer argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, defending New Jersey’s subpoena seeking records from a faith-based pregnancy center.  Iyer maintained that the group’s First Amendment challenge was premature because disclosure of its donor information would depend on a future state-court order.  The justices unanimously rejected the state’s position in April 2026, ruling that the subpoena created an immediate injury sufficient to allow a federal court challenge.

Zuckerman, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and for Judge Karen Nelson Moore on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.