President Obama Picks Jacqueline A. Berrien to Lead EEOC

In an announcement yesterday, President Obama selected Jacqueline A. Berrien, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, to head the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Berrien, a Harvard Law School graduate, has been the fund’s associate director-counsel since 2004. She previously worked as a program officer in the Ford Foundation’s peace and social justice program, administering more than $13 million in grants to promote political participation by under-represented groups. She also has worked for the American Civil Liberties Union.