Joe Biden Appoints Young Nigerian Woman Into His White House Cabinet (Photo)

 

Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo has been honoured after being appointed to serve in the cabinet of US President-elect, Joe Biden.

 

Her announcement was made public when Biden added an additional 20 members to the office of the White House counsel.

 

Badejo is a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US.

 

The office of White House counsel advises the president, the executive office of the president, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining to the president and the White House.

 

Badejo served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the Obama administration.

 

According to a statement on the Biden-Harris transition website, Badejo was general counsel of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis which was chaired by James Clyburn, house majority whip.

 

“Her prior government service includes serving as Counsel for policy to the Assistant Attorney-General in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Ethics Counsel at the White House Counsel’s Office and Attorney Advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States during the Obama-Biden administration,” the statement read.

 

 

Biden will be sworn in on January 20 as the 46th US president.

 

In December, Osaremen Okolo, a Nigerian-American, was earlier appointed a member of Biden’s COVID-19 response team.

 

This was after Nigerian-born Adewale Adeyemo was announced as deputy secretary of the treasury department.