Lakeside Grad Faces Congressional Confirmation Panel

Lakeside High School graduate Samantha Power, President Obama's choice to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will have her Congressional confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Fox News is reporting that Power could face some tough questioning from the congressional panel over her past comments regarding Israel. 

Power graduated from the DeKalb County school in 1988. She finished with a 4.08 GPA and a 1320 SAT score. She also participated in cross country, track and basketball.

Power covered the atrocities in Bosnia and the former Yugoslaviaand her 2002 book on genocide, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” earned her a Pulitzer Prize. Power worked on President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and ran the human rights office in the White House.

Some say that Obama’s nomination of Power demonstrates his renewed commitment to human rights.

“Power's appointment should be considered a signal that Obama wants his foreign policy legacy to include more than just a footnoted commentary about his desire to advance human rights on a global scale,” Toni Panetta, a political and policy strategist, wrote in blog for The Huffington Post on Wednesday.

However, others were equally critical of the appointment. During his Wednesday nationally syndicated radio talk show, Rush Limbaugh cited the fact that Power is married to Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, who Limbaugh said "is the leader of this entire belief system that the Bill of Rights is anti-government and needs to be changed."

In a forthcoming book, Sunstein writes that he received death threats after being targeted by Glenn Beck while he served as head of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Susnteain stepped down last August to return to Harvard.