Melody Barnes
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Does Barack Obama run a big boys' club?She cited prominent women Obama has appointed to top positions - including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, health-care czar Nancy-Ann DeParle and domestic policy adviser Barnes. According... In this article: Barack Obama, White House, Dog, Valerie Jarrett, Testosterone, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Robert Gibbs, and ESPN |
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Independent.co.uk - World | October 26, 2009
Obama hits sexism claims into the rough
...told NBC television. And, he noted, he had named women to 50 per cent of White House posts - including Melody Barnes, his domestic policy adviser and Christina Romer, head of the White House council of economic advisers. Not forgetting...
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Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation's first Hispanic justice ... took to the golf course with a woman, domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes. ...
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Melody Barnes. Michael Steele. Michelle Malkin. Michelle Obama. Mike Duncan. Mike Huckabee ... Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 54 year-old, nominated to replace retiring ...
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Today's Chicago Woman - Twice As Well
... to Kathleen Sebelius, from Lisa P. Jackson to Melody Barnes – the list goes on. ... Then along came this Supreme Court nomination, and Sonia Sotomayor. ...
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Melody C. Barnes (b. April 29, 1964, Richmond, Virginia)
was chosen by President Barack Obama to serve as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council for his administration . Obama announced her appointment on November 24, 2008. She was previously Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress and led the CAP's Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative. She left the CAP in June of 2008 to work on the Obama campaign. She also served on the advisory board for the Obama presidential transition team,.
She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Constitution Project. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with honors in History in 1986. As an undergraduate, she was a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity and a Sister of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
From 1995 to 2003 Barnes served as chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She previously served as the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as assistant counsel to the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, where she worked with Congress to pass the Voting Rights Improvement Act of 1992. She was a board member of EMILY's List.
Barnes began her career as an attorney with Shearman & Sterling.
Her mother is a teacher with a Master's degree in Education and her father is a retired member of the United States Army.
- Birth Date:
- January 01, 1964
- Birthplace:
- Richmond, Virginia
- Political party:
- Democratic
- Office:
- Director of the Domestic Policy Council
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