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

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

ENCNow
Press Release:

    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.


You can visit a collection of all White House posts by clicking HERE.


Go Back

HbAD0

Latest State and Federal

"This highly provocative move was designed to interfere with our counter narco-terror operations."
Charlie Kirk, 31 years of age, who was renowned as one of the most important and influential college speakers /Leaders in many decades; founder of Turning Point USA, has been shot dead at Utah Valley University.
The Trump administration took actions against Harvard related to the anti-Israel protests that roiled its campus.
In addition, Sheikha Al-Thani has "taken to promoting Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy on social media, boosting news of favorable polling on Instagram"
Raleigh, N.C. — The State Board of Elections has reached a legal settlement with the United States Department of Justice in United States of America v. North Carolina State Board of Elections.
For this particular Hollywood love story, there was no girl bossing, no modern twists, no glorification of living in sin forever.
National attention is intensifying after the gruesome murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light rail on Aug. 22.

HbAD1

Trump is different from most politicians. He doesn’t feel he owes these corporations anything.
In Australia, Canada, and Europe, free speech on asylum, migration, and national identity is increasingly being curtailed by law.
The first three episodes of the current season of "South Park" have hammered President Donald Trump and other GOP targets.
16 days after Hamas October 7 massacre, Turkish President Erdogan said Hamas was “not a terrorist organization … [but rather] a liberation group"
"I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty."
The Democrats turned our own census into a weapon against us. It's time to disarm them permanently.

HbAD2

As tariffs settle in, John Deere, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of heavy farm equipment, continues to suffer financial losses due to tariff costs.
Not everything has to be reduced to the partisan trenches.
"Accountability is coming. Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation."
Plaintiffs in a $16 million class-action lawsuit against Raleigh challenged the city's legal tactics in a new state Supreme Court filing.
Why are Donald Trump’s anti-crime measures so popular with people who don’t want to be killed?

HbAD3

 
Back to Top