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Amazing News!! On Friday, June 26, 2009, Vice President Biden announced the appointment of Lynn Rosenthal as the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women.

Video of Ms. Rosenthal acceptance of the appointment (skip ahead to 17:45 for her remarks):

As White House Advisor, Ms. Rosenthal will:

• serve as an advisor to the President and Vice President on domestic violence and sexual assault issues;
• be a liaison to the domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy community;
• coordinate with the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) on implementation of Violence Against Women Act programs;
• coordinate with the Department of Health and Human Services on implementation of Family Violence Prevention Act services (including the National Domestic Violence Hotline);
• coordinate with the State Department and USAID on global domestic violence initiatives;
• and drive the development new initiatives and policy aimed at combating domestic violence and sexual assault with advocacy groups and members of Congress.

She brings thirty years of experience to the job, from working on the national level where she served six years as the Executive Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, to state-wide positions at the Florida and New Mexico Coalitions Against Domestic Violence, to her start in fighting domestic violence at the local level as the Executive Director of the Refuge House in Tallahassee, Florida. Ms. Rosenthal is an alumnus of Florida State University.

"President Obama and Vice President Biden could not have named a more qualified, visionary leader to advise the White House on violence against women," said Sue Else, President of the National Network to End Domestic Violence

Let the President know you applaud efforts to fight domestic violence, online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ or write to 

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20500

(please include your email address in correspondence)