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Sikh-American Elected To US Republican Party’s National Committee:
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon
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A Sikh-American lawyer from California has been elected to a key position in the US Republican Party at the national level.
Punjab-born Harmeet Kaur Dhillon, 47, was elected as the newest member of the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) on Sunday, May 1, 2016, by thousand-plus votes in attendance at the California Republican Party convention.
She was earlier the vice-chairman of the California Republican Party.
She was the first woman elected to this position of vice-chair of the California Republican Party.
A nationally recognised trial lawyer, Harmeet was born in Punjab, but raised in rural North Carolina after her parents moved to the United States.
“A little girl from Chandigarh, Punjab, the Bronx, and Smithfield, North Carolina back in the day, to being one of California’s three votes on the RNC. For the next four years starting in late July, I will help shape the policies of the party of Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Tubman, the party of liberty and opportunity,” Harmeet said after her election.
Following her clerkship with Paul V Niemeyer of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Harmeet’s practice in New York, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area has focused on federal and state commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on unfair competition/trade secret misappropriation, intellectual property (including trademark litigation and internet torts), complex contractual disputes, and First Amendment litigation.
Based in San Francisco, Harmeet has also sat on, inter alia, the board of the American Civil Liberties Union.
May 3, 2016
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1: Deepi Singh (India), May 18, 2016, 3:13 AM.
Congratulations!