President Obama may nominate civil-rights attorney Thomas Perez as secretary of Labor. Perez is an assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice. He is also the former head of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Perez was a Justice Department attorney for 12 years prosecuting civil-rights cases, and a deputy assistant attorney general in the Clinton administration.
Perez also worked during the Clinton administration as the director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services. He was previously on the staff of the late-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
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