1. Wendy Ruth Sherman was born on June 7,1949 and is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023.
26 Facts About Wendy Sherman
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Wendy Sherman was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Wendy Sherman was a special advisor to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the North Korea policy coordinator.
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Wendy Sherman served under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry as under secretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to 2015.
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Wendy Sherman was the fourth-ranking official in the US Department of State.
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In that role, Wendy Sherman was the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.
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Wendy Sherman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to a Jewish family.
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Wendy Sherman attended Smith College from 1967 to 1969, and graduated from Boston University in 1971 in the field of sociology and urban studies.
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Wendy Sherman worked as director of Maryland's office of child welfare and as the president and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation, an arm of Fannie Mae.
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Wendy Sherman was the Clinton administration's policy coordinator for North Korea.
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Wendy Sherman has been a vice chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, Albright's international strategic consulting firm, since the group's formation in 2009.
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Wendy Sherman advised Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign, and she served with Thomas Donilon as an agency review lead for the State Department in the Obama presidential transition.
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From April 1996, Wendy Sherman became founding president and CEO of the newly created Fannie Mae Foundation, which was developed by Fannie Mae and endowed with $350 million in Fannie stock, with the goal of promoting home ownership and mortgages across wider sectors of American society.
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Wendy Sherman has been a member of the operating committee of Fannie Mae.
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Wendy Sherman was named part of a special task force by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to implement recommendations to improve protections for foreign service personnel, as a result of the 2012 Benghazi attack.
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Wendy Sherman was critical of Benjamin Netanyahu's step back from a two-state solution, suggesting it could impact the United States' veto policy surrounding related resolutions at the United Nations.
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Wendy Sherman was criticized by human rights organizations, including Amnesty International for praising Ethiopia for "strengthening its democracy" in wake of the 2015 elections - citing democratic backsliding and suppression of human rights.
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Wendy Sherman played a role in negotiating the details behind the Syria peace talks of 2016.
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Wendy Sherman served as the lead negotiator for the United States in the agreement reached with Iran on July 14,2015, in Vienna.
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Wendy Sherman's remarks seemed excessive, and that her comments were in line with US policy.
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On January 16,2021, President-elect Joe Biden formally nominated Wendy Sherman to serve as deputy secretary of state under Antony Blinken.
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Wendy Sherman's nomination was approved by the full Senate on April 13,2021, by a vote of 56 to 42.
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Wendy Sherman is the first woman to hold the position.
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Wendy Sherman was sworn into office on April 14,2021.
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In December 2021, The Washington Post reported that Wendy Sherman lobbied to water down the language of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
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Wendy Sherman is married to Bruce Stokes, a former journalist and director for Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center.