STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm:
DANIEL MORALES moves from Latham & Watkins LLP to Special Counsel for Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Morales is a 2019 Harvard Law School graduate and his BA from Fordham University in Political Science and Government was awarded in 2014.
Sydney Vermilyea (screenshot from Facebook).
Joining Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) as Deputy Scheduling Director/Advance Associate is SYDNEY VERMILYEA. Sydney moves into the challenging position following tenure as Scheduling Director. She began her congressional career as an Intern for the Speaker. Sydney is a 2020 graduate of Occidental College with a BA in Diplomacy and World Affairs.
CHLOE KOSEFF moves up to Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) after a stint as Legislative Assistant. Chloe is a Stanford University graduate in 2017 with an MS in Earth Systems/Land and Resource Management and, also from Stanford in 2016, a BS in Earth Systems/Sustainable Food and Agriculture.
LAURA KELLER takes over as Digital Press Secretary just in time for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Laura is a 2020 graduate of Kent State University in Political Science and Government, who was previously a Press Fellow for Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.).
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