Keisha Lance Bottoms Leaves White House Office Of Public Engagement Position

Former Columbia, S.C., Mayor Stephen Benjamin will replace Keisha Lance Bottoms as the Biden administration’s new senior adviser and director of the Office of Public Engagement, the White House announced Monday (Feb. 27). “As a former President of both the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the African American Mayors Association, Steve’s deep relationships with communities across the country will serve our Administration and the American public well,” President Joe Biden said of the three-term Columbia mayor. Bottoms, who served as Atlanta mayor from 2018 to 2021, joined the Biden administration...