Leah D. Daughtry

Leah D. Daughtry is the CEO of the 2008 Democratic National Convention Committee and chief of staff to Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. [cite web |title=Welcome to the New DemConvention.com |url=http://www.demconvention.com/welcome-to-the-new-demconvention-com/ |publisher=Demconvention.com |accessdate=2008-02-06] cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20minister-t.html|title=Can Leah Daughtry Bring Faith to the Party?|last=Daniel|first=Bergner|date=2008-07-20|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=2008-07-19] She was formerly Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management at the United States Department of Labor.cite web|url=http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/about/boardcurrentmembers.html#Leah%20D.%20Daughtry|title=Board of Visitors 2007-2008|publisher=Dartmouth College's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences|accessdate=2008-07-19] Daughtry is the daughter of prominent pastor, Herbert Daughtry, of the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn, New York and the part-time minister of her own small Pentecostal congregation in Washington, D.C. She directs the Democratic Party's Faith in Action initiative to reach out to Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim voters. [cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/us/20religion.html|title=Helping Democrats Find a Way to Reach the Religious|last=Gilgoff|first=Dan|date=2007-10-20|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=2008-07-19] In the 2008 DNC convention, Daughtry as convention CEO, denied non-religious groups participation in the interfaith service. [http://www.gazette.com/articles/convention_39362___article.html/service_interfaith.html?referrer=reddit] [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/16931096/detail.html]

Daughtry graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 and serves on the Board of Visitors of the College's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences.

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*cite web|url=http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/04/democratic_nati_21.php|title=Democratic National Committee Announces Leah Daughtry as CEO for Denver 2008 Convention|date=2007-04-20|publisher=Democratic National Committee|accessdate=2008-07-19