Maggie Goodlander

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Maggie Goodlander
Maggie Goodlander DOJ Portrait.jpg
Goodlander in 2021
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division
In office
September 2022 –February 2024
Relations Samuel Tamposi (grandfather)
Education Yale University (BA, JD)

Margaret Tamposi Goodlander [1] is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice under the Antitrust Division. [2] She is a candidate for the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. [3]

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Early life and education

Goodlander was born in November, 1986 and was raised in Nashua, New Hampshire. [2] Her grandfather, Samuel Tamposi, was a Republican real-estate developer who partially owned the Boston Red Sox. Betty Tamposi, Goodlander's mother, unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for Congress in 1988. [4]

Goodlander attended Yale University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 2009 from Yale College as a history major, then Yale Law School, where she received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 2016. [2] As a student at Yale, she was a research fellow in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Libya. [5]

After graduating from law school, Goodlander served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2016 to 2017 and Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court from 2017 to 2018. [2] [6]

Career

Goodlander began her career as a senior foreign policy advisor for Republican Senator John McCain. [7] Goodlander went on to serve as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve for over a decade. [8] In 2019, Goodlander was an associate attorney at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. [9]

Goodlander then served as Counsel to the United States House of Representative Committee on the Judiciary, where she helped develop the articles of impeachment against former U.S. President Donald J. Trump. [10] In 2023, Goodlander returned to New Hampshire as a solo practitioner, where she also served on the boards of the NH Women’s Foundation, NH Legal Assistance, the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, and the Rudman Center Advisory Board. She also taught constitutional law at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire. [11]

In 2021, after Merrick Garland assumed the office of U.S. Attorney General under President Joe Biden, Goodlander became Counselor to the Attorney General. From September 2022 to February 2024 Goodlander served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. [12] In 2024, Goodlander also served as a senior advisor at the White House, where she led President Biden’s Unity Agenda for the Nation. [13]

Candidacy for Congress

Goodlander announced on May 9, 2024, that she would be running as a Democratic candidate for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire to succeed Representative Annie Kuster.

Goodlander, who owns a home in Portsmouth, NH, located in a different congressional district, rented an apartment in Nashua in order to run for the seat. [14]

She entered as the third Democrat in the race; five Republicans candidates also entered the race for the seat. [11]

Personal life

Goodlander is the wife of Jake Sullivan, U.S. national security advisor under President Joe Biden. They married in 2015 in New Haven, Connecticut, where former president Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended their wedding. In 2023, she gave birth to a stillborn son in a hotel; she has cited the experience as inspiring her to campaign for abortion rights. [1]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Antitrust Division | Maggie Goodlander, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General". United States Department of Justice . June 14, 2023. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  3. ↑ Astor, Maggie (May 9, 2024). "Maggie Goodlander, Former White House Adviser, to Run for Congress in New Hampshire". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  4. ↑ Porter, Steven (May 9, 2024). "Maggie Goodlander launches N.H. congressional bid after White House exit". The Boston Globe . Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  5. ↑ Rod, Marc (May 9, 2024). "Maggie Goodlander, Jake Sullivan's wife and former White House official, running for Congress in New Hampshire". Jewish Insider . Retrieved June 17, 2024.
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  7. ↑ Kazarian, Grace; O'Keefe, Ed (May 9, 2024). "Maggie Goodlander, wife of national security adviser Jake Sullivan, launches congressional campaign in New Hampshire". CBS News . Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Maggie Goodlander". VoteVets. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
  9. ↑ Inc, Justia (2020). "Margaret 'Maggie' Goodlander". lawyers.justia.com. Retrieved July 2, 2024.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  10. ↑ Samuelsohn, Darren (December 12, 2019). "Meet the legal minds behind Trump's impeachment". Politico.
  11. 1 2 "Democratic ex-White House aide Maggie Goodlander is running for Congress in New Hampshire". AP News . May 9, 2024. Retrieved June 17, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Antitrust Division | Maggie Goodlander, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General | United States Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. June 14, 2023. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
  13. ↑ House, The White (March 8, 2024). "FACT SHEET: President Biden's Unity Agenda for the Nation". The White House. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
  14. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/politics/maggie-goodlander-house-candidate-home.html
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