Linda Thomas-Greenfield: Nominee Currently: Kelly Craft
Under Trump, the U.N. ambassador was removed from the president’s Cabinet, as part of a larger retreat from diplomacy and the world stage. Biden will reinstate the ambassador to the Cabinet as his administration aims to reverse Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Former top U.S. diplomat to Africa and career Foreign Service officer
Thomas-Greenfield served as the top U.S. diplomat to Africa under President Obama, an assistant secretary job that capped her 35-year career in the Foreign Service. Known as “LTG” among State Department rank-and-file, Thomas-Greenfield retired in 2017 after Trump took power and joined the Albright Stonebridge advisory firm as a senior counselor where she worked with her mentor former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Source: Washington Post Reported by John Hudson.
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2020-11-26 Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Husband & Kids: 5 Fast Facts Thomas-Greenfield Met Her Husband, Also a Foreign Service Officer, While Studying in Liberia. Her Daughter, Lindsay Jamila Greenfield, Works in the Foreign Service & Was Stationed in Bolivia. Lafayette Masteen Greenfield II Is a Partner at a Law Firm in Washington, D.C. Thomas-Greenfield Has a Daughter-In-Law & at Least One Grandchild. Thomas-Greenfield & Her Husband Own Property in Virginia & North Carolina.
2020-11-24 Biden taps longtime diplomat jettisoned under Trump as US ambassador to the UN Attending Louisiana State University in the early 1970s, she encountered a “hostile environment” where she faced harassment and racism.She was forced out at the outset of the Trump administration after a decades-long career at the State Department.Now Thomas-Greenfield is poised to take on one of her country’s most senior diplomatic jobs as President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be US ambassador to the United Nations.
2020-11-23 Biden’s choice for UN envoy signals return to US engagement
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