User:ProLifeDC/Charmaine Yoest Update

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. is President & CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL). She moved to Washington D.C. during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 2008 she was a senior advisor to Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign.

Dr. Yoest was called to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the July 2009 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whom Yoest unsuccessfully opposed. On July 1, 2010, Yoest testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee at the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee (and Solicitor General) Elena Kagan. Yoest also opposed Kagan's nomination and called for a Senate investigation into alleged discrepancies in Kagan's testimony related to partial-birth abortion.

Yoest has testified on other occasions before Congress. She co-authored Mother in the Middle, an examination of childcare policy. Yoest has a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia.

Affiliations

 * Project Director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project at the University of Virginia
 * Mellon, Olin, Bradley, and Kohler fellowships
 * Vice President at the Family Research Council

Family
Yoest, her husband Jack Yoest and their five children reside in a suburb of Washington, D.C.