Wilmington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina,the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek,two waterways near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley metropolitan area. Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton,Earl of Wilmington,who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain.
The Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism (CT) is a bureau of the United States Department of State. It coordinates all U.S. Government efforts to improve counter-terrorism cooperation with foreign governments and participates in the development,coordination,and implementation of American counterterrorism policy.
Salesianum School is a Catholic independent school for boys located in Wilmington,Delaware. It is run independently within the Diocese of Wilmington and is operated by the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.
Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States,including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of career ambassador.
The counselor of the United States Department of State is a position within the United States Department of State that serves the secretary of state as a special advisor and consultant on major problems of foreign policy and who provides guidance to the appropriate bureaus with respect to such matters. The counselor conducts special international negotiations and consultations,and also undertakes special assignments from time to time,as directed by the secretary of state. Currently,the counselor holds under law a rank equivalent to that of under secretary of state. Unlike the other under secretaries of state,the counselor currently does not require Senate confirmation. Historically,the role was appointed by the president,by and with the advice and consent of the United States Senate as authorized by 22 U.S. Code §2651a as one of four "other senior officials."
Jacob Walles was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia from July 24,2012,to September 2,2015. He is a retired career diplomat who spent much of his career addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict. He also served as Senior Advisor on Foreign Fighters in the Bureau of Counterterrorism in the Department of State from September 2015 to January 2017. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Francis Xavier Taylor was the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS),nominated by President Obama in 2014. In that role,he provided the Secretary,DHS senior leadership,the DHS components,and state,local,tribal and private sector partners with homeland security intelligence and information they need to keep the country safe,secure and resilient. DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis is a member of,and the Department’s liaison to,the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Richard J. Schmierer is a United States diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Oman through August 2012.
Major General Hugh T. Broomall is a retired senior officer of the United States Air Force and Delaware Air National Guard who served as the Special Assistant to the Director,Air National Guard. He was responsible for strategy development,state and federal liaison,inter-agency coordination and special studies supporting the one hundred and six thousand Air National Guard members nationwide.
General Francis D. Vavala is a retired Army National Guard officer who served as the Adjutant General of the State of Delaware. He received the promotion in February 1999 after the retirement of Major General George Hastings. In April 2017,Vavala was promoted to general in the Delaware Militia in honor of 50 years of service. He is the first Delaware National Guardsman to achieve four-star rank and one of the very few American service members to have risen from private to four-star general.
Matthew Heywood Tueller is an American diplomat who formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq. A career United States Foreign Service officer,he served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen as well.
Marie Elizabeth Harf is a liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel and former deputy campaign manager for policy and communications for the Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) presidential campaign. She served as the Senior advisor of Strategic Communications to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the United States Department of State,leading the Iran nuclear negotiations communications strategy. Harf also was Acting Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson of the State Department.
John Francis Kirby is a retired rear admiral in the United States Navy serving as Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House since late May 2022. He previously served as Pentagon Press Secretary for the first year and a half of the Biden Administration,and worked as a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN from 2017 to 2021. He served in the Obama administration as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2015 to 2017.
Timothy Gerard "Tim" Szymanski is a retired United States Navy vice admiral who last served as deputy commander of United States Special Operations Command from October 15,2018 to December 2021. He is the former commander of United States Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado,California.
The Spokesperson for the United States Department of State is a U.S. government official whose primary responsibility is to serve as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State and the U.S. government's foreign policies. The position is located in the Bureau of Global Public Affairs.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Brazil and the United States Ambassador to Ecuador.
Irwin Steven Goldstein is a former American diplomat,government official,and businessman who served as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the United States Department of State during Secretary Rex Tillerson's tenure in the Trump Administration. He was also Assistant to the Secretary and Director of Public Affairs at the United States Department of the Interior under Manuel Lujan Jr. during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush.
Richard Stephen Gebelein was an American politician and judge who served as the Attorney General of Delaware from 1979 through 1983,as a judge on the Delaware Superior Court from 1984 through 2005,and as an international judge in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kent Doyle Logsdon is an American diplomat who has served as the U.S. ambassador to Moldova since February 2022. He previously served as the U.S. chargéd'affaires for Germany.
John Joseph Tosi Sr. was an American football offensive lineman who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and several for different minor leagues.
