Ondray T. Harris was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Director of the Community Relations Service (CRS), U.S. Department of Justice, on March 13, 2008. It is a four-year term appointment. Mr. Harris was nominated for this position by the President on May 22, 2007, and was designated the Acting Director while awaiting Senate confirmation.

Before serving at CRS, Mr. Harris was Deputy Chief of the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prior to becoming a Justice Department lawyer, Mr. Harris served as a partner at the law firm of LeClair Ryan in its Richmond, Virginia, Headquarters Office. At LeClair, his practice was concentrated in the area of labor and employment law, which entailed counseling and representing employers in matters of personnel policies, Title VII discrimination suits, as well as other issues such as FMLA, FLSA, OHSA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Age Discrimination, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia's Office of the Attorney General. As an Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Harris represented the Commonwealth and litigated cases in federal and state courts dealing with Title VII, the First Amendment, as well as other issues. As Assistant Attorney General, he was also counsel for the Virginia Council on Human Rights. Before becoming an attorney, for a brief period, Mr. Harris was a banker.

Mr. Harris received a Bachelor's degree in history from Hampden-Sydney College and a Juris Doctorate from Washington & Lee University.