Candice Jackson

Candice Jackson is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education, and the Office's Acting Assistant Secretary. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hired Jackson for the position on April 12, 2017.

Jackson was raised in the Pacific Northwest, where her parents are medical doctors at their Ashbrook Medical Family Practice in Orchards, Washington, while her father, Ricky Lee Jackson, also performs as a Christian country music singer. In 1995, she appeared in the TV pilot of Fox's Medicine Ball. That year, she interned for Congresswoman Linda Smith. In 1996, when she was a junior, Jackson transferred from a Los Angeles community college to Stanford University, where she wrote for a conservative student publication founded by Peter Thiel, The Stanford Review, as a critic of affirmative action and feminism. In 1998 she managed her father's unsuccessful run for Congress. She worked for statehouse Senator Joseph Zarelli in 1998 and 1999. Jackson graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2002. She then worked for Judicial Watch.

In April 2004, she wrote in Reason Magazine that she thought there were too many federal crimes. She served as an editorial assistant on the collected essays of libertarian economist Murray Rothbard during a fellowship at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and wrote two academic papers appraising his work.

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