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Obama Nominates Alumna Leigh Bradley As General Counsel for Veterans Affairs

November 4, 2014

President Barack Obama has nominated Leigh A. Bradley, director of the Standards of Conduct Office within the Office of General Counsel at the Department of Defense, as general counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Since July, Bradley, ’81, has served as Special Counsel to the Secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the White House. She previously worked at the American Red Cross as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Risk and Chief Risk Officer from 2005 to 2007 and as Chief of Staff from 2004 to 2005. She was a partner at Holland & Knight, LLP, and from 1998 to 2001 was General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs.


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