Dara Lindenbaum | |
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Chair of the Federal Election Commission | |
In office January 1, 2023 –December 31, 2023 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Allen Dickerson |
Succeeded by | Sean J. Cooksey |
Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission | |
Assumed office August 2,2022 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Steven T. Walther |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Northeastern University (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Dara Lindenbaum is an American election lawyer serving as a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). She was nominated in January 2022 and confirmed by the Senate in May 2022.
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]
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] Prior to her governmental service Lindenbaum was a partner at Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein &Birkenstock,P.C. [8]
On January 21,2022,President Joe Biden nominated Lindenbaum to be a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission. [9] Hearings were held before the Senate Rules Committee on the nomination on April 6,2022. The committee favorably reported the nomination on May 3,2022. [10] She was confirmed by the full Senate on May 24,2022 by a vote of 54–38,with 6 Republicans supporting her confirmation. [11] She was sworn in on August 2,2022. [12] She was elected as FEC Chair for 2023. [13]
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