Researching Dawn Johnsen
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 44 people with the Johnsen surname? In that year Johnsen was ranked number 3535 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Dawn means "Dawn, daybreak" and is of English origin.
Records of Dawn Johnsen on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dawn Johnsen and the Johnsen Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 163 people with the Johnsen surname in the UK? Johnsen is now ranked number 3889 for popularity in the UK. |
Johnsen Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Johnsen surname in the USA? Johnsen is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Dawn Johnsen
Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen (born August 14, 1961) is an American lawyer and the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Constitutional law, on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She currently serves in the Biden administration as Acting Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel, having been appointed on January 20, 2021 by President Joe Biden to return to the role she previously held in the Clinton administration.
Johnsen worked at the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice from 1993 to 1998 and served as acting Assistant Attorney General from 1997 to 1998; she was twice nominated to the post in the Obama Administration. Johnsen's first nomination was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2009 in a party line vote, but was not acted on by the full Senate before it recessed at the end of 2009. Obama then renominated her to the post on January 20, 2010 but on April 9, 2010, Johnsen withdrew her name from consideration.
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