Sessions Taps New Confirmation Counsel

By Keith Perine | May 22, 2009 3:09 PM | | Comments (0)

Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today announced that he has hired Elisebeth Cook to be his "Chief Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations."

Cook is a former Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy in the George W. Bush administration, where her duties included shepherding judicial nominations. She was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the OLP from 2005 to 2008, a period that included the John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. nominations to the high court.

"I will benefit greatly from her insight and legal skills, and I look forward to working with Elisebeth as we conduct a substantive examination of the nominee's record," Sessions said.

Cook is a former clerk to D.C. Circuit Senior Judge Laurence H. Silberman and Texas federal judge Lee H. Rosenthal. She has also been an attorney at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Cooper and Kirk.

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