“I told her when she got the job, I said, ‘Congratulations, you’re head of leg affairs! Sympathies, you’re head of leg affairs!’ ” Wheeler joked in an interview.
Terrell, a Capitol Hill veteran who has worked closely with Biden for years, inherits a treacherous political environment running the office tasked with coordinating the president’s agenda with members of Congress.
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She will work for a president who is a creature of the Senate and who has shown a desire to try to work with Republicans in a highly polarized climate. Terrell will have to balance that desire for bipartisanship with a need to unify various factions of the Democratic Party on key legislation, despite divisions on certain health care and economic issues.
Obituaries
ABA Board of Governors member who died suddenly was a good lawyer but a better person, friends say
Photo of Kevin Curtin by Danny Duran.
Kevin Curtin, senior appellate counsel in the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts and the District 2 representative to the ABA Board of Governors, died suddenly Thursday.
“Kevin was a great lawyer,” Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan says. “He was somebody who really valued the profession and contributed to the profession.
“But as good a lawyer as he was, he was a better person. If you look at somebody’s life in terms of, were they successful and the criteria is did they make life better for somebody else? There are legions of people who can say, ‘My life was better in some way, personally or professionally, because of Kevin.’ “