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Aug 3, 2006 8:35 pm US/Central
Bush Nominates Paulose As U.S. Attorney For MN
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President George W. Bush
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President Bush on Thursday nominated Rachel K. Paulose for a four-year term to succeed Tom Heffelfinger as U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
Paulose, of Eagan, Minn., has been serving as interim U.S. Attorney since Feb. 28, following Heffelfinger's resignation.
"Rachel Paulose is an experienced and skilled Minnesota attorney. The president is proud to nominate her for U.S. Attorney and we look forward to a speedy Senate confirmation," said White House spokesman Alex Conant.
When appointed to the interim position, Paulose was senior counsel to Acting Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty and the Justice Department's special counsel for health care fraud.
Paulose was a prosecutor as an assistant U.S. attorney for Minnesota from 1999 to 2002 and then worked in private practice for the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Minneapolis.
Before 1999, she worked in the Justice Department as an attorney general's honors program trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division.
With a law degree from Yale, Paulose began her legal career in Minneapolis as a law clerk for Chief Judge James B. Loken of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1997 to 1998.
In 1994, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and a Truman Scholar. She also served as a student representative on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents.
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