diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index c6aeaa7aa62..9781716a028 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ New Features
 
 61. SOLR-522: Make analysis.jsp show payloads. (Tricia Williams via yonik)
 
+62. SOLR-611: Expose sort_values returned by QueryComponent in SolrJ's QueryResponse (Dan Rosher via shalin)
+
     
 Changes in runtime behavior
  1. SOLR-559: use Lucene updateDocument, deleteDocuments methods.  This
diff --git a/client/java/solrj/src/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/response/QueryResponse.java b/client/java/solrj/src/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/response/QueryResponse.java
index 2ede53bae9a..21270a4e39c 100644
--- a/client/java/solrj/src/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/response/QueryResponse.java
+++ b/client/java/solrj/src/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/response/QueryResponse.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ public class QueryResponse extends SolrResponseBase
   // Direct pointers to known types
   private NamedList<Object> _header = null;
   private SolrDocumentList _results = null;
+  private NamedList<ArrayList> _sortvalues = null;
   private NamedList<Object> _facetInfo = null;
   private NamedList<Object> _debugInfo = null;
   private NamedList<Object> _highlightingInfo = null;
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ public class QueryResponse extends SolrResponseBase
       else if( "response".equals( n ) ) {
         _results = (SolrDocumentList) res.getVal( i );
       }
+      else if( "sort_values".equals( n ) ) {
+        _sortvalues = (NamedList<ArrayList>) res.getVal( i );
+      }
       else if( "facet_counts".equals( n ) ) {
         _facetInfo = (NamedList<Object>) res.getVal( i );
         extractFacetInfo( _facetInfo );
@@ -209,6 +213,10 @@ public class QueryResponse extends SolrResponseBase
   public SolrDocumentList getResults() {
     return _results;
   }
+ 
+  public NamedList<ArrayList> getSortValues(){
+    return _sortvalues;
+  }
 
   public Map<String, Object> getDebugMap() {
     return _debugMap;