US President-elect Joe Biden nominated Vanita Gupta, a respected civil rights lawyers in America, as his associate Attorney General and called her a "proud daughter of immigrants from India who has fought for greater equity.”
If confirmed by the Senate, the 46-year-old would be the first woman if Indian descent to serve in this role.
Gupta started her career at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Then on to the ACLU. And then to the Justice Department during the Obama-Biden administration where she led the civil rights division.
He also expressed his gratitude towards her for quitting her current job with one of the premier civil rights organisations in the world to be with him as his associate attorney general.
In her remarks, Gupta said that there were not many agencies in the federal government like the Department of Justice that bears the name of a value. Gupta said that the department promises equal justice to all and not upholding it would result in erosion of democracy recalling the incident of racism she encountered as a kid.
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