Rachana Bhowmik on Obama Transition Team

New York, Nov. 21, 2008
Surinder Singh Randhawa

Rachana Bhowmik served as Legislative Counsel to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, named on Obama Transition Team. She will serve as members of the state, national security, defense, intelligence and arms control and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Before her appointment in National Security Team:

Rachana “Ruchi” Bhowmik
Legislative Assistant
Office of Senator Barack Obama

Rachana Bhowmik currently serves as Legislative Counsel to Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. She handles civil rights, civil liberties, and national security issues such as intelligence, homeland security, and veterans issues for the Senator. Senator Obama is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Ms. Bhowmik staffs the senator’s work on the Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees.

Prior to joining Senator Obama’s staff, Rachana Bhowmik served for three years as Judiciary and Education Counsel for Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. On Senator Wyden’s staff she handled defense, homeland security, privacy, economic development, international trade, judiciary, and education issues.

Before coming to the Hill, she was staff attorney for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and an associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Collier, Shannon, Rill and Scott, where she was a member of the International Trade group representing U.S. companies in international trade disputes.

Rachana Bhowmik is a graduate of the University of Virginia, School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.