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06-29-2010, 06:10 PM
US President Barack Obama has just appointed Dominican Ramona Emilia Romero as the General Counsel for the Department of Agriculture. Together with this latest nomination, President Obama has now appointed four Dominicans to government posts and one to a commission. In addition to the Ramona Romero, President Obama has also appointed Tom Perez (Asst. Attorney General), Jim Esquea (Asst. Secretary for Dept. of Health & Human Services), Julissa Reynoso (Deputy Asst. Secretary of State), and Cid Wilson (National Museum of the American Latino Commission).
Romero currently works as corporate counsel at E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), a leading agrochemical producer. She has worked at DuPont since 1998. Previously, from 1988 to 1998, she was a commercial, government contracts and white-collar litigator at Crowell & Moring in Washington, DC. Romero has served on several boards and been affiliated with a number of professional organizations, including the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, both the House of Delegates and the Presidential Initiative Commission on Diversity of the American Bar Association, the Advisory Committee of The O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative at the University of Denver, and The Justice at Stake Campaign. She is also the Immediate Past President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and a founding member and former officer of the Dominican American National Roundtable.
Romero is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Lucero ("guiding light") Award from Latino Justice PRLDEF (formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund) and Hispanic Business Magazine's recognition in 2007 as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Romero currently works as corporate counsel at E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), a leading agrochemical producer. She has worked at DuPont since 1998. Previously, from 1988 to 1998, she was a commercial, government contracts and white-collar litigator at Crowell & Moring in Washington, DC. Romero has served on several boards and been affiliated with a number of professional organizations, including the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, both the House of Delegates and the Presidential Initiative Commission on Diversity of the American Bar Association, the Advisory Committee of The O'Connor Judicial Selection Initiative at the University of Denver, and The Justice at Stake Campaign. She is also the Immediate Past President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and a founding member and former officer of the Dominican American National Roundtable.
Romero is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Lucero ("guiding light") Award from Latino Justice PRLDEF (formerly known as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund) and Hispanic Business Magazine's recognition in 2007 as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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