President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled nine nominees for ambassadorships, including for Israel, NATO and Mexico. Among the names was hero pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger
President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled nine nominees for ambassadorships, including for Israel, NATO and Mexico. Among the names was hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, whose quick thinking and deft skills saved lives when he landed a disabled plane in the Hudson River.
Tom Nides, a banking executive and former deputy secretary of State will be named for the spot in Jerusalem, while Julianne Smith, a longtime foreign policy adviser to Biden, is up for the NATO position in Brussels. Ken Salazar, a former U.S. interior secretary, is up for the Mexico City job. The fifth political appointee is Cynthia Ann Telles, a clinical professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. A fluent Spanish speaker, Telles is up for the ambassadorship to Costa Rica. Past media reports indicate she’s married to Joe Waz, a Comcast executive.
The four career government officials being nominated are: Julie Chung, currently the acting assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, for the post in Sri Lanka; Sharon Cromer, a USAID official, for The Gambia; Troy Fitrell, currently the director of the State Department Office of West African Affairs, for Guinea; and Marc Ostfield, the State Department’s ombudsman, for Paraguay.The White House has dismissed criticism that Biden is running late with his ambassador nominations.
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