Attorney Generals office

New York's solicitor general will take over for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman when his resignation becomes effective at close of business on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the transition process.

Barbara Underwood, who was appointed to her current post in January 2007, is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and argued 20 cases before the United State Supreme Court, according to her government biography. She worked for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York before her current role and from 1998 to 2001 was the acting-solicitor general and principal deputy solicitor general of the United States.