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Dec 9, 2006 3:59 pm US/Central
Senate Confirms U.S. Attorney For Minnesota
Minneapolis (AP) ―
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Before 1999, Rachel Paulose worked in the Justice Department as an attorney general's honors program trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division.
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Rachel Paulose as the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota early Saturday.
The 33-year-old Paulose, of Eagan, had been acting U.S. attorney for about nine months. President Bush nominated her for the permanent job about four months ago.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said in a news release that he urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to allow full a Senate vote on Paulose before the Senate adjourned early Saturday.
Paulose met Wednesday with outgoing Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., and got his support. However, it appeared that the Senate session would end before it took up her confirmation.
"It would have been a shame to see such a capable, experienced nominee fail to get a chance for confirmation, and I am very excited we were able to get her nomination through the Senate before adjournment," Coleman said a news release.
The U.S. Attorney's office did not respond to messages left there Saturday.
Paulose was a federal prosecutor in 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.
Paulose succeeds Tom Heffelfinger. She is the youngest current U.S. attorney and Minnesota's first woman confirmed to the post.
She's also a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Minnesota.
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