Danielle C. Gray | |
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White House Cabinet Secretary | |
In office January 25, 2013 – January 13, 2014 |
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President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Chris Lu |
Succeeded by | Broderick Johnson |
Personal details | |
Born | 1977/1978 (age 38–39) Riverhead, New York, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education |
Duke University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Danielle Gray is the former Assistant to the President, Cabinet Secretary, and a Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. Previously, Gray served as Deputy Director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. Newsweek called her "the most powerful White House staffer you've never heard of."
A native of Riverhead, New York, Danielle Gray graduated from Duke University and in 2003 from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of Harvard Law Review and was voted by her classmates "most likely to be a Supreme Court justice."
Danielle Gray worked as a law clerk for Judge Merrick Garland on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She also worked as a law clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Gray worked on the policy and research staff of then State Senator Barack Obama's 2004 campaign for United States Senate. She was also an early member of U.S. Senator Obama's campaign for President, working as Deputy National Policy Director for the Obama for America Presidential Campaign in 2007-2008.