Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen was born on August 14,1961 and is an American lawyer and the Walter W Foskett Professor of Constitutional law, on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
16 Facts About Dawn Johnsen
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Dawn Johnsen previously served in the Biden administration as Acting Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel, having been appointed on January 20,2021, by President Joe Biden, to return to the role she previously held in the Clinton administration.
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Dawn Johnsen was succeeded in that role in a permanent capacity by Christopher H Schroeder, and is currently serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the same office.
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Obama then renominated her to the post on January 20,2010, but on April 9,2010, Dawn Johnsen withdrew her name from consideration.
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From 1993 to 1998, Dawn Johnsen worked in the Office of Legal Counsel.
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Dawn Johnsen was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General from 1993 until 1996, and served as Acting Assistant Attorney General heading the OLC from 1997 until 1998.
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Dawn Johnsen joined the Indiana University faculty in 1998 upon leaving government service.
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Dawn Johnsen is a member of the national boards of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Guttmacher Institute.
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In November 2020, Dawn Johnsen was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Justice.
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Dawn Johnsen's nomination was approved by the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote and sent to the full Senate on March 19,2009.
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Obama had the option of making a recess appointment, which would have enabled Dawn Johnsen to fill the post until the end of the 2010 session of the Senate.
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Dawn Johnsen's nomination was endorsed by Senator Richard Lugar, a senior Republican from Johnsen's state of Indiana.
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Dawn Johnsen was supported by the remaining 57 Democrats as of May 2009.
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On July 30,2021, Dawn Johnsen wrote an opinion directing the Department of the Treasury to turn over the tax returns of Donald Trump to the United States House Committee on Ways and Means, stating that the committee had "invoked sufficient reasons" to request the tax information.
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Dawn Johnsen founded City First Bank of DC, a certified Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to strengthening low-to-moderate-income communities.
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Dawn Johnsen's brother-in-law is United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge David Hamilton.