Dellinger is a former deputy attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice and and chief legal counsel in the NC governor's office. Image: LauGSmith/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffPresident Biden has nominated Hampton Dellinger, most recently a Justice Department assistant attorney general overseeing the office of legal policy, to head the Office of Special Counsel, to replace Henry Kerner, whose term expired a year ago and who is reaching the end of the allowed one-year holdover period.
According to a White House announcement, Dellinger’s role at Justice included “vetting potential nominees to the federal judiciary, coordinating DoJ rule making, and handling policy assignments at the direction of DoJ leaders.” Other initiatives included updating guidelines for the support of crime victims and witnesses, contributing to the national strategy to combat human trafficking and enhancing the reliability of forensic science in investigations and prosecutions, it said.
He is a former deputy attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice and served as chief legal counsel in the office of the North Carolina Governor.
Kerner earlier was nominated to fill the vacant seat on the MSPB board, a nomination still pending before the Senate along with a nominee for the vacant seat on the FLRA board.
The nomination has already spurred speculation and questions over of a connection to Hunter Biden. Dellinger once worked for a law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, where Hunter Biden was counsel in 2014. The firm also represented Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
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