EMILY's List, a group that supports Democratic female candidates who favor abortion rights, has just named Amy K. Dacey as executive director.

Dacey comes over from Service Employees International Union, where she served as director of government relations. Dacey has experience in Democratic electoral politics. She was national political director for Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's Keeping America's Promise political action committee during the 2006 election cycle, and she was traveling political director for Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign.

In the 2002 election cycle, Dacey worked as deputy political director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee under chair Patty Murray, D-Wash. The current president of EMILY's List is Stephanie Schriock, a former campaign manager for Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. during his disputed contest against former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.