Interesting Info: Melody Barnes

Melody Barnes is the Executive Vice President for Policy at American Progress, and was named on November 24, 2008, by President-elect Barack Obama, as the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

ALL Black people must look alike to you. Melody Barnes graduated with honors from UNC-Chapel Hill and got her law degree from the University of Michigan and 1 tier school. I’ve spent some time with Melody Barnes in a Judiciary Committee related matter and she’s a very solid and talented individual.

Later today, President-elect Barack Obama will announce that our friend and former colleague Melody Barnes will be named as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Think Progress ” Obama to appoint Melody Barnes as head of Domestic Policy Council.

Melody Barnes is the Executive Vice President for Policy at American Progress, and was named on November 24, 2008, by President-elect Barack Obama, as the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

As Kennedy’s chief counsel, she shaped civil rights, women’s health and reproductive rights, commercial law, and religious liberties laws, as well as executive branch and judicial appointments. Barnes has some of the liberal credentials that people have seen lacking in some other Obama appointments. She served as Chief Counsel to Ted Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2003, was CAP’s Executive Vice President for Policy, and then left to join Obama’s campaign as policy director.

From 1995 to 2003 Barnes served as chief counsel to Senator Edward Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Barnes, a Richmond native, is one of the top African-Americans named to the new administration.

The Council”coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House and offers policy advice to the President.”