By MARY GILBERT
President-elect Barack Obama rounds out his picks today to lead the Justice Department, and it appears that National Journal's Shane Harris and Peter Stone were right on the money in their predictions last month for who would fill these sub-Cabinet positions.
David Ogden, a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington and head of the Obama transition team's agency review of the Justice Department, has been nominated for the post of deputy attorney general. Ogden's deputy in the transition process and another D.C. lawyer, Thomas Perrelli, has been chosen as associate attorney general.
Filling out his team, Obama named Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan as his solicitor general-designate. And Dawn Johnsen, professor at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, has been selected to lead the Office of Legal Counsel, a role she also served under President Clinton from 1997 to 1998.
These individuals, along with Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, will face the daunting task of restoring credibility to the Justice Department after multiple reports of politicization of the agency under the Bush administration. For more on that topic, see NationalJournal.com's Insider Interview with former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick.
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