Margaret Peterlin

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  1. 1 2 Toosi, Nahal (March 14, 2018). "Top Tillerson aides resign amid State Department shuffle". Politico. Peterlin and Ciccone offered their resignations to Tillerson on Tuesday, a State Department official said, confirming an earlier report by CNN. "Secretary Tillerson accepted their resignations with regret and thanked them for their service," the official said. "Their resignations will be effective March 31 to help Secretary Tillerson with the transition."
  2. "Chief of Staff: Margaret Peterlin". U.S. Department of State . Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  3. "AT&T Hires Former Rex Tillerson Aide Margaret Peterlin for Public Affairs Job". 6 July 2018.
  4. "13th Annual Independent Inventors Conference - Speakers". United States Patent and Trademark Office. 2008. Archived from the original on May 31, 2017. A native of Daleville, Alabama, Ms. Peterlin holds a bachelor of arts from the College of the Holy Cross
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Commerce Secretary Gutierrez Names Margaret J.A. Peterlin Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office". May 8, 2007. Archived from the original on May 31, 2017.
  6. "Margaret Peterlin '93 Joins State Department as Secretary Rex Tillerson's Chief of Staff | College of the Holy Cross". news.holycross.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ehrlich, Jame (February 13, 2017). "Law School Alum to Be Chief of Staff to Secretary Tillerson". The Chicago Maroon.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Wadhams, Nick (May 31, 2017). "Tillerson's Enigmatic Chief of Staff Wields Power, Not the Spotlight". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on May 31, 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Gvaramia, Salome (November 30, 2015). "MARGARET PETERLIN JOINS XLP CAPITAL AS MANAGING DIRECTOR". XLP Capital via Blogspot. Archived from the original on May 31, 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Arnsdorf, Isaac (December 2, 2015). "CAT's Oberhelman to chair BRT". Politico. XLP Capital, a technology development, venture investment, and strategic advisory firm, hired Margaret Peterlin as a D.C.-based managing director. Peterlin was CEO of the Prefects Global, Mars Inc.'s technology strategic officer, deputy undersecretary of intellectual property and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and counsel for legal policy and national security adviser for Speaker Dennis Hastert.
  11. Toosi, Nahal (January 31, 2017). "Can Tillerson calm the chaos at State?". Politico . Retrieved May 31, 2017. One person who's been prominent during Tillerson's interactions with the State Department is Margaret Peterlin, a former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office official with extensive government and private-sector experience.
  12. Kosinski, Michelle; Koran, Laura (April 28, 2017). "White House says State Department responsible for vacancies". CNN. Others still point to his chief of staff, Margaret Peterlin, a former naval officer and Trump campaign staffer who has worked for Republican lawmakers and the Commerce Department. The White House official said Peterlin is a big part of the staffing choices and process. The official specified that Peterlin is not a "White House" appointed person, but a "transition" person -- selected by Trump transition officials and then kept on by Tillerson.
  13. Behind the State Dept. bottleneck Politico, June 4, 2017
  14. Toosi, Nahal. "Tillerson's disdain for tradition leads to diplomatic dust-ups". Politico. Archived from the original on March 21, 2017. Instead, Tillerson is surrounded by a small group of White House-approved aides who carefully curate access to him. Margaret Peterlin, Tillerson's chief of staff, is said by sources in the department to be a bottleneck, hindering people's ability to reach the secretary.
  15. Ioffe, Julia (March 1, 2017). "The State of Trump's State Department". The Atlantic . Retrieved May 31, 2017. One State Department employee told me that Peterlin has instructed staff that all communications with Tillerson have to go through her, and even scolded someone for answering a question Tillerson asked directly, in a meeting.
  16. Labott, Elise (March 3, 2017). "Tillerson finds it's hard for a CEO to become a secretary". CNN. Tillerson's chief of staff, Margaret Peterlin, has also kept a tight rein on all communications with the secretary.
  17. Dawsey, Josh; Johnson, Eliana; Isenstadt, Alex (June 28, 2017). "Tillerson blows up at top White House aide". Politico . Retrieved June 29, 2017. Tillerson has also drawn criticism for isolating himself — with the help of Peterlin, his chief of staff — in his office on the State Department's seventh floor and for excluding many career diplomats from the policymaking process.

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Margaret Peterlin
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Peterlin in 2007
6th Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of State
In office
February 12, 2017 March 31, 2018 [1]