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Melody Barnes (Melody C. Barnes) was born on 29 April, 1964 in Richmond, Virginia, United States, is an American lawyer and political advisor. Discover Melody Barnes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

Popular As Melody C. Barnes
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Age 59 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 29 April, 1964
Birthday 29 April
Birthplace Richmond, Virginia, United States
Nationality United States

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1934

Barnes's father Charles H. Barnes Jr. was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army, and her mother Mary Frances Rogers Barnes (1934-2014) was a teacher.

1964

Melody C. Barnes (born April 29, 1964) is an American lawyer and political advisor.

Barnes was born on April 29, 1964, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia.

1986

Barnes earned her BA with honors in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 and her JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1989.

Barnes is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

1989

In 1989, Barnes began her career as an attorney with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in New York City as an associate in corporate finance and financial institutions.

Barnes then worked at the Raben Group, where she lobbied for the American Civil Liberties Union, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, American Constitution Society, and Center for Reproductive Rights.

Barnes served as director of legislative affairs at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and as assistant counsel of the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary Committee.

1992

In the latter role, Barnes worked on the Voting Rights Improvement Act of 1992.

1995

Barnes was general counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1998, and chief counsel from 1998 to 2003.

2003

From 2003 to July 2008, Barnes was at the Center for American Progress, a think tank.

2005

She was executive vice president for policy at the center from 2005 to 2008.

Barnes was involved in the launch of the center's Initiative on Faith and Public Policy.

She worked under CEO John D. Podesta, who later served as co-chairman of the Obama-Biden transition team.

2007

In 2007, Barnes was featured in a Washingtonian magazine list of ten well-dressed Washington women.

2008

Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barnes later worked at the Center for American Progress, a think tank, before joining Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

Barnes was senior domestic policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.

After the election, Barnes helped to lead Obama's transition team.

Barnes served as co-director of the Agency Review Working Group for the transition.

Prior to joining the White House, Barnes served on the board of a Washington, D.C. charter school, as well as the boards of EMILY's List and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

2009

After Obama took office as president, Barnes was appointed director of the Domestic Policy Council, serving in that post from January 2009 to January 2012.

After leaving the White House, Barnes assumed roles at the Aspen Institute and New York University.

After Obama took office in January 2009, Barnes became assistant to the president and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.

In October 2009, Barnes played golf with Obama at Fort Belvoir, becoming the first woman to play golf with the president during Obama's presidency.

(Obama had previously been criticized for playing golf and basketball only with male staffers).

Barnes was one of several African-American women in important Obama administration positions, along with Valerie Jarrett, Mona Sutphen, Susan Rice and Cassandra Butts.

As a former staffer for Ted Kennedy, Barnes was also one of a number of former congressional staffers in the Obama White House, alongside Jim Messina (formerly aide to Senator Max Baucus), Pete Rouse and Jeanne Lambrew (Senator Tom Daschle), Phil Schiliro (formerly aide to Representative Henry Waxman), and Lisa Konwinski (former aide to Senator Kent Conrad).

Paul Starr writes that Obama's choice to surround himself with these former senior aides to key congressional leaders on health care was instrumental in passing the health-care reform legislation through Congress.

On June 13, 2009, Barnes married Marland Buckner Jr., a former chief of staff to U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr.., in Washington.

2010

Barnes chaired the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, which in May 2010 released a 124-page report with 70 recommendations to combat the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States.

2011

In November 2011, the White House announced that Barnes would be leaving.

2012

She departed in January 2012.

After leaving the White House, Barnes became chief executive officer of Melody Barnes Solutions LLC, a strategy firm advising major financial institutions and other clients.

2013

In 2013, Barnes has also been vice provost for global student leadership initiatives at New York University, and senior fellow at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Barnes is now co-director of University of Virginia's Democracy Initiative, a broad research, teaching and public affairs initiative tackling the most pressing issues facing democracies around the world.

2014

She joined the boards of directors of Ventas, Inc. in 2014, and Booz Allen Hamilton in 2015.

Barnes is chair of the Aspen Institute's Forum for Community Solutions.

2016

Since 2016, she has been at the University of Virginia, where she teaches law and is the co-director of the UVA Democracy Initiative.

She is a professor of practice at UVA's Miller Center, after having served since 2016 as a visiting professor and senior fellow there and a distinguished fellow at the School of Law.

In 2016, Barnes received the "Strong Men & Women in Virginia History" award from the Library of Virginia and Dominion Power.