The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled Thursday to take up the nomination of April Perry to be the next U.S. attorney in Chicago, marking a crucial step to becoming the first-ever woman to hold the high-profile position.
Perry’s selection, which was announced by President Joe Biden three months ago, is among a dozen federal nominations to be considered at an executive meeting of the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. The hearing will bePerry, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, was one of two finalists for the position announced earlier this year by Durbin and U.S. Sen.
Perry would be the first woman to hold the position of Chicago’s top federal prosecutor. Durbin and Duckworth have previously said they looked forward to supporting Perry’s nomination in the Senate. If passed out of committee, the nomination would go to the full Senate for a vote — a process that can take weeks.“She was highly regarded by our screening committee and brings strong qualifications and a wealth of experience from her time in the U.S.
Perry is currently the senior counsel for global investigations and fraud and abuse prevention at Chicago-based GE HealthCare. Previously, she worked for 12 years as a federal prosecutor in Chicago, and for a time was a coordinator for various programs that concentrated on violence against women, hate crimes and civil rights.
While with the U.S. attorney’s office, she prosecuted television pitchman Kevin Trudeau on allegations that he made deceptive TV commercials, a crime that led to
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