Senate Aide Nominated to Lead Civil Rights Office

President Bush, seeking to fill a long-vacant post at the U.S. Department of Education, has nominated a veteran Republican aide in the Senate to become the assistant secretary for civil rights.

Stephanie Johnson Monroe, 47, was the chief counsel for the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee from 2001 until earlier this year, and previously served in other posts for the committee. She has long worked with Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. When he gave up the gavel of the education panel earlier this year to take over the Senate Budget Committee, Ms. Monroe followed...