Linda Chavez is chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization in Sterling, Va. Linda Chavez also writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country, is a political analyst for FOX News Channel, and hosts a syndicated, daily radio show on Liberty Broadcasting. Chavez authored "Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation" (Basic Books, 1991), which the Denver Post described as a book that "should explode the stereotypes about Hispanics that have clouded the minds of patronizing liberals and xenophobic conservatives alike." National Review describes Linda Chavez's newest work, "An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal" (Basic Books 2002), as a "brilliant, provocative, and moving book." In 2000, Linda Chavez was honored by the Library of Congress as a "Living Legend" for her contributions to America's cultural and historical legacy. In January 2001, Linda Chavez was President George W. Bush's nominee for Secretary of Labor until Linda Chavez withdrew her name from consideration. Linda Chavez has held a number of appointed positions, among them Chairman, National Commission on Migrant Education (1988-1992); White House Director of Public Liaison (1985); Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1983-1985); and Linda Chavez was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984-1986). Linda Chavez was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Maryland in 1986. In 1992, Linda Chavez was elected by the United Nations' Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. Expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Linda Chavez was also editor of the prize-winning quarterly journal American Educator (1977-1983), published by the American Federation of Teachers, where Linda Chavez also served as assistant to AFT president Al Shanker (1982-1983) and assistant director of legislation (1975-1977). Linda Chavez serves on the Board of Directors of ABM Industries Linda Chavez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was Co-Chair of the Council's Committee on Diversity (1998-2000). Linda Chavez was born in Albuquerque, N.M., on June 17, 1947, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Colorado in 1970. Linda Chavez is married and is the mother of three sons. Linda Chavez currently lives in Reston, Va. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ If your friends and family are like mine, you've received at least one of those handy bookstore gift cards under the tree, so here are some ideas on how you might spend them. It's an eclectic list, and not all the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/12/25/recommended_reading 00b64b62-6901-4640-a316-81bd3853f0c4 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Climate change is one of those issues I know enough about to know how little I really know. And I certainly haven't learned much more during the 193-nation climate talks that concluded in Copenhagen this week.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/12/18/climate_hubris 097f483a-f7c2-4d1e-8a1f-b3396bb4b832 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT If Jesse Jackson is mad at Barack Obama, the president must be doing something right. Jackson complained this week that President Obama wasn't doing enough to help blacks in a recession that has disproportionately... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/12/11/the_color_of_recession 5487c229-6f4b-4c98-b925-035c4d387f78 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The president's job summit this week may be good public relations, but it won't do anything to help create jobs in this depressing economy. Despite the $159 billion the administration claims to have already spent on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/12/04/cut_taxes_to_create_jobs aefc94cb-4c56-4743-a76f-f6f720e8b014 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT There's nothing to get you into the mood for a Thanksgiving gathering like a little H1N1 in the air. I've been hacking away for 10 days -- no fever, but suffering all the other symptoms -- and earlier this week, my... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/11/26/thanksgiving_flu ddf7bc05-4905-48fe-bc8c-1192443eabf8 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT If there was ever a more irresponsible decision by a U.S. attorney general than Eric Holder's decision to try the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attack and four others as common criminals in a civilian court in New... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/11/20/ksm_and_oj ed9299ad-4292-4c43-a6b9-839b1b7c53a6 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT "What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here." Those words were spoken not by some diversity guru but by the Army Chief of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/11/13/fire_gen_casey 407f7619-970b-4681-bec9-e5a22ebb0969 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Democrats are having a hard time explaining away their big losses on Tuesday. First, the White House let it be known that President Obama wasn't actually watching election returns, choosing instead to tune into HBO's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/11/06/blueprint_for_gop_victories 637a2d85-5ba2-4091-8726-8b7860577a9a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT It's a good thing Larry Whitten isn't in charge of the editorial page of this publication; otherwise, I might be forced to write under the name Pretty Keys -- which is how Linda Chavez roughly translates from (old)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/30/whats_in_a_name a3850ef5-bc8e-49a7-bccb-8b5d4650366b Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT No doubt many will cheer executive pay cuts ordered by the Obama administration at companies that received U.S. bailouts last fall, but the celebration will prove short-lived. Obama pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, who has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/23/politics_of_envy 73b9961c-d459-46e7-8492-50a5c18661f5 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "That's not the change America voted for." The implied criticism of President Obama comes not from Rush Limbaugh or Fox News but from the AFL-CIO in a newspaper ad this week letting the president and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/16/unions_calling_in_their_chits 0e7aac23-1d7a-4abf-8ad8-50d3b65f3b85 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If there's one thing Barack Obama learned back in his community organizing days, it was that numbers count. The more people you can claim to represent, the bigger your political base. So it should come as no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/09/disenfranchising_citizens 3fef288e-71cf-4c0b-b056-122c9675d3a1 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Commonwealth of Massachusetts hardly seems a likely setting for rampant sex discrimination in state hiring, but apparently the Obama administration doesn't agree. The Justice Department this week filed suit... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/10/02/common_sense_not_sex_discrimination 55f02d6d-e431-432d-8bc1-36c8954be74e Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:07:27 GMT For the first time in decades, the number of foreign-born individuals living in the United States declined last year, according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The drop was... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/09/25/immigrant_values 68c7c575-c7ef-492c-9c39-c0f48e3e9da6 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Instead of a debate on the merits of President Obama's health care proposals or congressional Democrats' failure to produce a bill that has any chance of bipartisan support, we've been diverted this week by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/LindaChavez/2009/09/18/diversionary_tactics_on_both_sides fe21665d-1f73-469b-a397-4d6869082706 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT