Mack Tapped for Homeland Security Civil Rights Post

President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Megan H. Mack as Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security.

She is the Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, a position she has held since 2009. Previously, Mack was the Associate Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, from 2005 to 2009. From 2002 to 2005, she was the Supervisor of Legal Services for Hogar Hispano, Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington in Falls Church, VA. From 2000 to 2002, she was a Litigation Associate at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, MA. Mack served as a Law Clerk to Judge Fred I. Parker in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Burlington, VT from 1999 to 2000. She received a BA from Brown University, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.