Who is Harmeet Dhillon? Indian American who will lead the civil rights division of the Justice Department for Donald Trump | Today news

Conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is US President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the division of the Department of Justice, the Republican controlled US Senate confirmed Thursday. Dhillon will oversee criminal and civil work, ranging from prosecution of hate crime and the litigation of voting rights, to the investigation into law enforcement agencies for the involvement of discrimination, Reuters reported. Who is Harmeet Dhillon? Harmeet Dhillon, 54, was born in Chandigarh. She moved to the US with her parents. In 2016, she was the first Indian American to appear on the stage of the GOP event in Cleveland.