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Susan Hoffman, the immediate past president of the DC Bar, has been named as the new Chair of the Washington Ireland Program, with several other high-profile figures also joining the Program’s Board.
Prominent Washington, DC lawyer Susan Hoffman, who specializes in human rights issues affecting women and children, will lead the Washington Ireland Program’s Executive team alongside new Vice-Chair Charles John O’Byrne, Executive Vice President for Policy for one of America’s largest private real-estate developers.
Hoffman will lead the Board’s delivery of its mission to develop, support, and engage leaders who can build constructive relationships between communities across the island of Ireland.
When a friend dies, it is often the small things one misses; the details rather than the big picture. In the days since Norman Houston died, many people, often those in public life whose work brought them into close contact with him in Washington, DC, have rightly paid tribute and expressed sympathy online.
The artist Colin Davidson, whose large-scale portraits hang in the Lyric Theatre, summed it up in his Twitter tribute, writing of Norman s empathy, selflessness, decency, warmth, professionalism, loyalty, inclusivity, positivity, balance as the qualities than made him unique in this world .
For me, one of Norman s greatest qualities was that he could make links and see connections that few others could so readily identify.
Washington Correspondent
Joe Biden s campaign manager has described the US president-elect as a proud Irish-American whose roots and faith have formed part of his leadership.
Jen O Malley Dillon ran Mr Biden s election campaign and will become his deputy chief of staff when he takes office in January.
She was speaking at a virtual event hosted by the Washington Ireland Programme. Obviously the president-elect is a proud Irish-American and so much of the leader he is, is part of the story of his life of resilience, where he comes from and his roots, Ms O Malley Dillon said. He s a man of strong faith and has strong values that are steeped in his life growing up in Scranton, she added.