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NEWS RELEASEATTORNEY GENERAL BIDEN: CHIEF OF STAFF APPOINTEDPosted: Jan. 19, 2007 Attorney General Joseph R. Biden III has appointed Jennifer D. Oliva as his chief of staff, a newly created position in the Delaware Department of Justice. She will be responsible for overseeing the Administrative Division, Public Information Office and all legislative and external affairs. Oliva, who was born in Delaware and grew up in Millsboro, is a graduate of Sussex Central High School. She was nominated by the late U.S. Senator William V. Roth Jr. to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and was graduated in 1996 as a Truman Scholar. She also was awarded the highly prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, one of only eight women to receive this honor in West Point’s 200-year history, to study at Oxford University. Afterwards she served as a military police officer with commands in Alabama and West Point before retiring as a captain. Oliva is a 2004 cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor for the Georgetown Law Journal. She was a law clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas L. Ambro in Wilmington and U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanie K. Seymour, based in Denver. Oliva was a lawyer with Steptoe & Johnson in Washington as part of the firm’s appellate and white collar crime practice groups, before she joined Biden’s staff. “I am honored Ms. Oliva has decided to join my senior leadership team to help guide the Department of Justice in our effort to make Delaware an even better state,” Biden said. “The Department of Justice, and the people of Delaware, will benefit from her intellect, energy and commitment to service.” ### |
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