Linda Douglass | |
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Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform | |
In office May 2009 –April 2010 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | John R. Phillips |
Children | 1 |
Education | University of Southern California (BA) |
Linda Douglass is an American political advisor,former government official,and former journalist who served as the head of communications for Bloomberg L.P.,as well as a correspondent for ABC News,often reporting for World News Tonight . Douglass had previously served as a communications advisor in the Obama administration.
Douglass earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Southern California. [1]
Douglass had a long career as journalist with ABC News and CBS News and covered some of the major events of the 1990s and early 2000s. [2] She was awarded the National Press Foundation's Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress in 1999. [3] She began her journalism career in 1973 with KNXT.
Douglass served as a senior strategist and spokeswoman for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign. [4] Following Obama's victory,Douglass was appointed spokeswoman for the presidential inauguration committee. [5] During President Barack Obama's first term,she was director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform from 2009 to 2010. [6] [7] [8] [9]
In June 2010,she was named vice president and Head of Corporate and Strategic communications at Atlantic Media, [10] and later became Senior Vice President of Global Communications. [11] In 2013,she moved to Italy when her husband,John Phillips,was named ambassador to Italy. [12] In 2019,she endorsed Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. [13]
In October 2022,Douglass joined the Council for Responsible Social Media project launched by Issue One to address the negative mental,civic,and public health impacts of social media in the United States co-chaired by former House Democratic Caucus Leader Dick Gephardt and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey. [14] [15]
Douglass is married to the former United States ambassador to Italy,John R. Phillips,and they have one daughter. [16] [17]