President Joe Biden will nominate GE Healthcare attorney April Perry to serve as Chicago’s US attorney, teeing up the first woman to serve as the district’s top law enforcement official.
If confirmed by the Senate, Perry, who was previously a line prosecutor at the Chicago office from 2004 to 2016, would be the first US attorney installed by the current administration in a region that’s struggled to combat violent crime. President Joe Biden initially opted to keep a Trump appointee in the post, John Lausch, who stepped down in March.
Perry’s selection process has drawn outsized attention in the Chicago ...
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