Dara Lindenbaum

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Dara Lindenbaum
Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission
Nominee
Assuming office
TBA
Appointed byJoe Biden
SucceedingSteven T. Walther
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic
EducationNortheastern 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[]

  1. ^ "President Biden Announces 2 Key Nominees". The White House. 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  2. ^ "Anti-War Protesters March Against Iraq Policy". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  3. ^ "Biden nominates Democrat Lindenbaum for Federal Election Commission". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  4. ^ Reuters, Thomson. "Biden nominates Democrat Lindenbaum for Federal Election Commission". The Mighty 790 KFGO | KFGO. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ ""I Am the Crazy Person Who Went To Law School To Do Exactly This"". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-21.
  7. ^ 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.
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