NEW YORK: The US White House on Friday announced that President Joe Biden has nominated Seema Nanda, a former CEO of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to be the Department of Labour solicitor.

Nanda’s nomination to the senior administration position will have to be approved by the Senate. She is returning to the Labour Department having served as its chief of staff and deputy solicitor in President Barack Obama's administration.

At the DNC, she was the CEO for about two years and stepped down last year to facilitate coordinating fundraising with arm of Biden's campaign. Nanda, who has specialised in labour and employment law, is now a fellow at Harvard Law School's Labour and Worklife Program.

In prior stints in government, she has also led what is now the Justice Department's Office of Immigrant and Employee Rights Section and was a supervisor attorney in the National Labour Relations Board.

Nanda has also been the COO and vice president of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She was appointed to the position by Vanita Gupta, who was the organisation's president and is now Biden's nominee for associate attorney general.

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