7. Preeta.D.Bansal

Prior to joining the Obama administration Preeta served as a law partner to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. From 2009-2011 she served the U.S Federal office of Management and Budget as General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor. She is honored with an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989. She also has experience in working with the Clinton administration from 1993-1996 as a Counselor in the U.S department of Justice and as a White house special counsel. In the Justice Department, she provided assistance to Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, on United States v. Microsoft and other matters. Bansal was honored with the “Best United States Supreme Court Brief” award from the National Association of Attorneys General during every year that she served as New York Solicitor General, and is widely credited with initiating significant managerial reforms to enhance the legal excellence, efficiency and transparency of the Solicitor General's Office. She played a lead role in providing the intellectual underpinning of "federalism" that later animated Attorney General Spitzer's active state enforcement agenda.