Sharon Day | |
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United States Ambassador to Costa Rica | |
In office September 25, 2017 –January 20, 2021 | |
President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | S. Fitzgerald Haney |
Succeeded by | Cynthia Telles |
Personal details | |
Born | 1950or1951(age 74–75) Texas,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Sharon Day is the former United States Ambassador to Costa Rica. She previously served as the co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. [1] [2] [3] She resigned on January 19,2021.
Day owned an insurance company in Indianapolis with her husband. They sold the company,which had 156 employees,in the early 1990s and retired to South Florida. [4]
Day has served on different Republican Party committees on the local,state,and national level since the 1990s. Day became a precinct committeeman in 1994,state Republican committeeman for Broward County in 1996,national committeewoman representing Florida in 2004,and national party secretary in 2009. She lost a bid for national party chair in 2010 when Jim Greer resigned. [4] She has served as national party co-chair since 2011 and has been re-elected into 2015. [1]
Day resided in the Galt Mile neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale,Florida. [4] She has been a lifelong Republican. [4] She was married to Larry Day. They have two children. [5] Larry died in 2012. [6]