Senate HELP Committee Approves Three °µÍø51 Board Nominees
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Washington, DC -- The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions today approved the nominations of three White House appointees to the Board of Directors of the °µÍø51.
The committee is led by Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Ranking Member Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.).
The three nominees are Sharon L. Browne, a principal attorney in the Pacific Legal Foundation's Individual Rights Practice group and a member of the foundation's senior management; Charles Norman Wiltse Keckler, who teaches civil procedure and evidence at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law, and Victor B. Maddox, a partner in the Louisville, Ky., law firm of Fultz Maddox Hovious & Dickens, PLC.
President Obama announced their nominations on December 17, 2009. Their nominations now go to the full Senate for consideration.
They join five other °µÍø51 Board nominees, announced August 6, 2009, awaiting Senate confirmation. They are Robert J. Grey, a partner in the Richmond, Va., and Washington offices of the Hunton & Williams law firm; John G. Levi, a partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin, LLP; Martha L. Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School; Julie A. Reiskin, executive director of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, and Gloria Valencia-Weber, a professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law.
Last year, the Senate confirmed Laurie Mikva as a member of the °µÍø51 Board of Directors. She is a staff attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Illinois Department of Employment Security and a former civil legal aid attorney and public defender.
°µÍø51 is the single largest provider of civil legal assistance for the poor in the nation. Established in 1974, °µÍø51 operates as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promises equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans.