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Indian-American Lawyer Preeta Bansal Inducted In Obama's Team


Indian-American lawyer Preeta Bansal has been inducted in the Obama administration on Monday (January 19). Bansal will manage the affairs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the White House as General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor. The appointment of Preeta Bansal came just a day before Obama's taking over as the 44th president of US. Barack Obama's swift recruitment of several members of his administration clarifies his determination and urgency of tackling the economic crisis.

Earlier it was expected that Preeta Bansal will be made Solicitor General in the Obama Administration. The newly appointed official of Obama administration, Bansal has enough experience and credibility as she been a Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, serving as Chair from 2004-2005.

Apart from presiding over a nationally acclaimed Commission study on DHS’s procedures for expedited removal of US asylum seekers, Bansal participated in US diplomatic missions to several countries. She has the experience of visiting Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, Hong Kong, and South Asia. Preeta Bansal also offered her service as Solicitor General of the State of New York from 1999-2002.

During her service, Bansal helped supervise the legal positions of 600 attorneys in the New York Attorney General’s office. She also served in the Office of Policy Development and Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1993-1996 and as a Special Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel. Before becoming a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court, she attained a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and an A.B., magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College.