Cassandra Quin Butts was an American lawyer, policy expert, and Deputy White House Counsel.
15 Facts About Cassandra Butts
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On December 23,2008, Butts was selected by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as Deputy White House Counsel, focusing on domestic policy and ethics.
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Cassandra Butts was on the advisory board for then-President-elect Obama's presidential transition team.
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Cassandra Butts stepped down as Deputy White House Counsel in November 2009 and served as Senior Advisor in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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Cassandra Butts was re-nominated to the position on February 5,2015 but died more than a year later as her nomination continued to face a hold by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton.
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Cassandra Butts was born on August 10,1965, in Brooklyn, New York, and at age nine moved to Durham, North Carolina.
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Cassandra Butts graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 1991 from Harvard Law School where she was a classmate of Barack Obama and the two became close friends.
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Cassandra Butts was an election observer in the 2000 Zimbabwean parliamentary election and counsel to Senator Harris Wofford.
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Cassandra Butts became the Senior Vice President for Domestic Policy at the Center for American Progress.
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Cassandra Butts had been rumored in February 2009 to be a candidate to lead the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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On November 6,2009, Obama named Cassandra Butts to serve as a senior advisor in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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Cassandra Butts' departure was considered to be one of the highest-level departures up to that point from the office of the White House Counsel, and it was followed one week later by the announcement of the departure of Cassandra Butts' then-boss, White House Counsel Gregory Craig.
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On February 7,2014, Cassandra Butts was nominated by President Obama to be United States Ambassador to the Bahamas.
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Cassandra Butts died on May 25,2016, still awaiting a Senate vote.
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Cassandra Butts was found dead in her Washington, DC home by her sister on May 25,2016.