The Rape,Abuse &Incest National Network (RAINN) is an American nonprofit anti-sexual assault organization,the largest in the United States. RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline,as well as the Department of Defense Safe Helpline,and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault,help survivors,and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice through victim services,public education,public policy,and consulting services.
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law signed by President Bill Clinton on September 13,1994. The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women,imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted,and allowed civil redress when prosecutors chose to not prosecute cases. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the U.S. Department of Justice.
The United States Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) was created following the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994. The Act was renewed in 2005,2013 and again in 2022. The Violence Against Women Act legislation requires the Office on Violence Against Women to work to respond to and reduce violence against women in many different areas,including on college campuses and in people's homes. VAWA requires Office on Violence Against Women to administer justice and strengthen services for victims of domestic violence,dating violence,sexual assault,and stalking.
Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history,as well as the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president. A member of the Democratic Party,she was previously attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and a U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021.
Dorchen A. Leidholdt is an activist and leader in the feminist movement against violence against women. Since the mid-1970s,she has counseled and advocated for rape victims,organized against "the media's promotion of violence against women",served on the legal team for the plaintiff in a precedent-setting sexual harassment case,founded an international non-governmental organization fighting prostitution and trafficking in women and children,directed the nation's largest legal services program for victims of domestic violence,advocated for the enactment and implementation of laws that further the rights of abused women,and represented hundreds of women victimized by intimate partner violence,human trafficking,sexual assault,the threat of honor killing,female genital mutilation,forced and child marriage,and the internet bride trade.
Catherine Mary Russell is an American attorney and political adviser who is the current Executive Director of UNICEF. Russell previously served as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office,United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues,and Chief of Staff to then-Second Lady of the United States Jill Biden.
Virginia Mary Kendall is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President George W. Bush appointed her to the bench on January 3,2006. In addition to serving on the bench,Judge Kendall is also a noted expert on child exploitation and human trafficking,as well as an adjunct professor and author.
Robin Ann Sax is an author,lawyer,clinical therapist,legal analyst,radio host,an HLN contributor,and a former prosecutor for the State of California,County of Los Angeles and Riverside County District Attorney's Office.
Lisa M. Friel is a New York City lawyer and prosecutor. She formerly served as chief of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
Luis C.deBaca is an American lawyer and diplomat who served in the Obama Administration as Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and as Director of the Department of Justice's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing,Monitoring,Apprehending,Registering,and Tracking.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th and current United States Deputy Attorney General since April 21,2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault was formed on January 22,2014,after President Barack Obama directed the Office of the Vice President of the United States and the White House Council on Women and Girls to "strengthen and address compliance issues and provide institutions with additional tools to respond to and address rape and sexual assault". The Task Force is part of a wider federal move to bring awareness to sexual violence on American campuses,which also included the Office for Civil Rights release of a list of American higher education institutions with open Title IX sexual violence investigations and the It's On Us public awareness campaign. The co-chairs of the Task Force are Vice President Joe Biden and Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett.
Sally Quillian Yates is an American lawyer. From 2010 to 2015,she was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2015,she was appointed United States Deputy Attorney General by President Barack Obama. Following the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the departure of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on January 20,2017,Yates served as Acting Attorney General for 10 days.
Erin Nealy Cox is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas from 2017 to 2021. She was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2017. After the 2020 election,she resigned effective January 9,2021,and joined Kirkland &Ellis as a partner on June 23,2021.
Monica P. Medina is an American attorney and government official who previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the Department of State. Medina served as Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere,deputy associate attorney general,and general counsel of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She was also the U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission. She is currently President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Cindy Seeley Hendrickson is a judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
In March 2020,during that year's election campaign for President of the United States,Tara Reade alleged that Democratic nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 in a Capitol Hill office building when she was a staff assistant in his office. Biden denied Reade's allegation.
Cindy Kyounga Chung is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She previously served as United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2021 to 2023.
Rosemarie Hidalgo is an American attorney and political advisor serving as the director of the Office on Violence Against Women since July 2023. She previously served as a special assistant to President Joe Biden and senior advisor for the White House Gender Policy Council since January 2021.
Leigha Amy Simonton is an American lawyer who has served as United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas since December 2022.
