Dara Lindenbaum
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Dara Lindenbaum | |
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Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission | |
Nominee | |
Assuming office TBA | |
Appointed by | Joe Biden |
Succeeding | Steven T. Walther |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Northeastern University (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Dara Lindenbaum is an American election lawyer and lobbyist working at Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, P.C. In January 2022, she was nominated to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission.
Education[]
Lindenbaum earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history from Northeastern University and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School in 2011.[1]
Career[]
During the Iraq War, Lindenbaum was an activist with Code Pink.[2] After graduating from law school, she worked as associate counsel in the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She was also a development assistant at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.[3][4][5] During the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, Lindenbaum worked as general counsel for Stacey Abrams's campaign.[6] In 2020, Lindenbaum was legal counsel for Fair Fight Action.[7]
References[]
- ^ "President Biden Announces 2 Key Nominees". The White House. 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ "Anti-War Protesters March Against Iraq Policy". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ "Biden nominates Democrat Lindenbaum for Federal Election Commission". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ Reuters, Thomson. "Biden nominates Democrat Lindenbaum for Federal Election Commission". The Mighty 790 KFGO | KFGO. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ Mordock, Jeff. "Biden looks to reshape elections commission with nominee". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ ""I Am the Crazy Person Who Went To Law School To Do Exactly This"". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- ^ Galloway, Jim; Bluestein, Greg; Mitchell, Tia; Murphy, Patricia. "The Jolt: On Tuesday, an offer of hot chocolate to a shivering voter could become a crime". Political Insider (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Retrieved 2022-01-21.
- Living people
- American lawyers
- American lobbyists
- Northeastern University alumni
- George Washington University Law School alumni