Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named two Indian Americans Reema Shah and Neha Gupta to the Office of the White House Counsel.
Shah, who had served on the debate preparation team for Biden on the Biden-Harris Campaign, has been named as Deputy Associate Counsel while Gupta, currently an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel for the Biden-Harris Transition, has been named as Associate Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel.
Shah was an associate at Latham & Watkins and a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice.
She served as a law clerk to Justice Elena Kagan on the US Supreme Court and Judge Sri Srinivasan on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Originally from New Jersey, Shah is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University and Yale Law School.
On the other hand, Gupta served as a Deputy City Attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where she was general…