This morning, Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate Dawn Johnsen to be Assistant AG for the Office of Legal Counsel.
A law prof at Indiana University, Johnson serves on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. From 1988-93, Johsen (Yale, Yale Law) was the legal director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. She clerked for Richard D. Cudahy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
