US President Joe Biden has nominated prominent Indian-American legal expert Anjali Chaturvedi as General Counsel in the Department of Veterans Affairs, the latest from a community setting for a key position in the administration.

The White House website says, Ms Chaturvedi is a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice. Ms Chaturvedi has been nominated for the General Counsel of the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

Throughout her career, Ms Chaturvedi has worked in three public and private practice branches. Before returning to government, Ms Chaturvedi served as Assistant General Counsel and Director of Investigations at Northrop Grumman, where she led the firm’s global investigations team.

Ms Chaturvedi is Assistant General Counsel at BP and a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP in Washington, DC. Before entering private practice, she was a federal prosecutor.

Ms Chaturvedi was born in Cortland, New York, a first-generation American.