Things are getting a little tight in Iowa, so it may not be the right time for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to roll out her presidential cabinet.
But should she ultimately get the nomination and then win the presidency, odds are that she might ask the New York City power couple of Joel I. Klein and Nicole K. Seligman to join her team.
And she could also keep things all in the family and sign on Stephanie Seligman, Nicole’s sister, to work at the White House or just about anywhere else.
Klein and the Seligmans have resumes and connections that scream, “Appoint me.”
He’s been the chancellor of schools in New York City since 2002. An unorthodox choice for the job as he had almost no experience in public education other than a short stint as sixth-grade math teacher, he has nonetheless survived and implemented changes.
A Harvard Law School graduate, Klein, 61, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
He was deputy counsel to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1995. He then joined the U.S. Attorney General’s office and was the lead prosecutor when the U.S. Department of Justice took on Microsoft and won.
He was the CEO of Bertelsmann Inc., the media giant, before taking the chancellor’s post.
Nicole Seligman attended Harvard College, where she was the managing editor of the Harvard Crimson. “She was bright, witty, charming, tough, everything you would want as a managing editor,” one of her co-workers told the Washington Post.
At college, she was also a friend of Caroline Kennedy. And later, she was a bridesmaid when Kennedy and Edwin A. Schlossberg married.
Seligman graduated from Harvard Law School in 1983. Later, she clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and became a partner at Washington firm of Williams & Connolly.
She was on the legal team that represented Oliver North. (”Nobody messes with Nicole Seligman,” North told the Post.)
She was a legal counsel to Bill Clinton during the impeachment process. Now she’s executive vice president and general counsel for Sony Corporation of America.
Klein and Seligman were married in 2000. Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law professor, says a dinner party at his house got the couple together.
“We sat Joel Klein, my former research assistant, next to one of my former students, Nicole Seligman, and they got married,” Dershowitz told New York Magazine.
Seligman’s sister Stephanie also graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law. She then clerked for Judge Milton Pollack of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Now she’s a partner with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specializing in mergers and acquisitions.
Nicole and Stephanie Seligman have been frequent contributors to Democratic candidates. Nicole has given $4,600 to Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign this year, and she contributed to previous Clinton senatorial campaigns.
Stephanie contributed $1,000 to Friends of Hillary in 2006.
Klein has also supported Democrats, including Clinton. In 2002, he contributed $2,000 to Friends of Hillary.
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