Norton Appoints Labor Leader Josh Williams to Her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission

Press Release

The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced Joslyn (Josh) Williams as the newest member of Norton's Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission. The Commission screens and recommends candidates for important federal law enforcement positions in the District of Columbia from whom Norton chooses her recommendations to the President. Williams currently serves as the president of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO, which represents 150,000 union members in the nation's capital and suburban Maryland. He became the first African-American president of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO in 1982. Williams is a resident of Ward 6. The Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, a special counsel at Ballard Spahr LLP and former president of the D.C. Bar., consists of lawyers and laypeople from all of the city's wards. Williams replaces Thomas Donahue, a former president of AFL-CIO. Norton thanked Donahue, who, she said, has given exemplary service to the commission, to law enforcement in the District, and to the citizens of the District.

"Josh Williams is not only a distinguished labor leader; he is a widely-respected District of Columbia leader whose decades of experience and local experience in multiple aspects of District life will make him a valuable member of our Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission," Norton said.

President Obama, like President Clinton, granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend federal district court judges, the U.S. Attorney, and other federal law enforcement officials in the District. Norton's Commission consists of 17 D.C. residents.

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