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• Representatives for Barack Obama reported on November 24, 2008, that Melody Barnes would be named the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.Politico: Former Kennedy counsel will head domestic policy (November 24, 2008)Barnes worked as Senator Ted Kennedy's chief of counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-2003 and served as assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights.Political Base: Melody Barnes

• Fast Facts

  1. Served as Ted Kennedy's chief of counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-2003
  2. Attended the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  3. Served as the Director of Legislative Affairs for the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  4. Served as assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional RightsPolitical Base: Melody Barnes
  5. Former Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center For American Progress
  6. Former attorney for Shearman & SterlingWashington Post: Obama Announces Agency Review Chiefs...(November 12, 2008)

• Prior Work With Obama

  Barnes was the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to the Obama for America campaign. In mid-November of 2008, she was named Co-chair of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Before joining the Obama Campaign, Barnes was the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center For American Progress think tank.Washington Post: Obama Announces Agency Review Chiefs...(November 12, 2008)

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