US President-elect, Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo into his cabinet.
Biden had announced the appointment of Badejo, a lawyer and an alumna of Berkeley Law College in the US, when he named additional twenty members of the office of the White House counsel.
The office of White House counsel advises the president, the executive office of the president, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining to the president and the White House.
Badejo served as ethics counsel in the same office toward the end of the Obama administration.
According to a statement on the Biden-Harris transition website, Badejo was general counsel of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, which was chaired by James Clyburn, House Majority Whip.
Biden will be sworn in on January twentieth as the 46th US president.