President Biden Announces His Intent To Nominate Catherine Lhamon for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education | Eastern NC Now

Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Catherine Lhamon for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education.

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    WASHINGTON     Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Catherine Lhamon for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education.

    Catherine Lhamon, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of Education

    Catherine Lhamon is Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council for Racial Justice and Equity, where she manages the President's equity policy portfolio. Until January 2021, she chaired the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, to which President Obama appointed her in 2016, and served as Legal Affairs Secretary to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Before then, Lhamon was Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, to which President Obama nominated her and the Senate confirmed her in 2013. Lhamon has also litigated civil rights cases at National Center for Youth Law, Public Counsel Law Center, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California. Lhamon taught federal civil rights appeals at Georgetown University Law Center in the Appellate Litigation Program and clerked for the Honorable William A. Norris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Born in Virginia and raised in California, Lhamon graduated from Amherst College and Yale Law School. Lhamon and her husband and two daughters are transitioning between California and Maryland.


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