President Obama nominated Melinda Haag, a San Francisco attorney and former federal prosecutor, on Thursday to become U.S. attorney for coastal Northern California.
If the Senate confirms her appointment, Haag would become the first woman to hold the position in San Francisco since Annette Adams. She served from 1918 to 1920.
In the Friday March 26 San Francisco Chronicle article, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif, who recommended her to the President, was quoted as saying that Haag “is well-respected in the California legal community and will bring more than two decades of experience handling white-collar crime cases to the U.S. attorney’s office.”
Haag is currently a partner at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, an international law firm based in San Francisco.
