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
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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Served as Ted Kennedy's chief of counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-2003
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Attended the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Served as the Director of Legislative Affairs for the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Served as assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional RightsPolitical Base: Melody Barnes
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Former Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center For American Progress
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