Julianna Smoot

Julianna Smoot

Deputy Campaign Manager, Obama for America
In office January 2011 – November 2012 Serving with Stephanie Cutter
President	Barack Obama
White House Social Secretary
In office February 26, 2010 – March 1, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Desirée Rogers
Succeeded by	Jeremy Bernard
Chief of Staff to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk
In office February 2009 – 2010?
President	Barack Obama
Co-Chair of the Presidential Inaugural Committee
In office 2008? – 2009
National finance director, Obama for America
In office January 2007 – ~2008
Personal details
Born	Julianna Skinner Smoot ~1967 North Carolina, United States
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Lon Barton Johnson (m. October 2011)
Alma mater	Smith College, B.A. (government) 1989
parents	Edward B. Smoot and Julia L. Smoot
hometown	Sampson County town of Clinton, North Carolina
^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Julianna Smoot is a political fundraiser for the Democratic Party. She was a Deputy Manager of Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign,^[5] having previously served as White House Social Secretary, Deputy Assistant to the President.^[6] and Chief of Staff to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Smoot previously served as a professional fundraiser for the Democratic Party.^[7] She was the national finance director for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign; under her direction, the campaign raised $32.5 million during the second quarter of 2007 and by election day, more money than any campaign in American history.^[8] She was named Social Secretary after her predecessor, Desirée Rogers resigned on February 26, 2010.^[7]^[9]

Life and career

Smoot was born in North Carolina, where she was a debutante in Raleigh and other towns. She graduated from Smith College in 1989; her fellow Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter was a year behind. She took leave from her job at the American Trial Lawyers Association to be finance director of John Edwards's 1998 campaign for U.S. Senate. She met Pete Rouse and Steve Hildebrand on Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's unsuccessful reelection campaign in 2004, where she raised $21 million. Rouse and Hildebrand brought her to the first Obama presidential campaign in January, 2007.^[4] She has also held positions with Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. She worked in Senatorial campaigns for Chris Dodd and Harry Reid.^[1]^[3]^[10]

During the 2006 election cycle, she raised record sums as finance director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, under Chuck Schumer.^[4]

Smoot was, according to a press report, declared "MVP for the first fundraising quarter" due to her success in raising money for the Obama presidential campaign in 2007.^[11]^[12]

Smoot is now serving on the board of nonprofit Barack H. Obama Foundation, which was officially set up for constructing the Barack Obama Presidential Library and Museum.^[13]

Her husband, Lon Johnson, was briefly the chairperson of the Michigan Democratic Party ^[14]^[15] until he resigned in June 2015 to run for the United States House of Representatives in Michigan's 1st District and was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2012 election for the 103rd district in the Michigan House of Representatives.^[16] His wife's employment in the Obama reelection effort was a campaign issue.^[17]

References

1 2 Christensen, Rob (September 3, 2012). "Former N.C. debutante Julianna Smoot heads Obama's money machine". Charlotte News & Observer. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
↑ "Julianna Smoot and Lon Johnson". New York Times. October 23, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
1 2 "Idealism and Compromise in Politics and Life". Women's Narratives Project. Smith College. November 5, 2009. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
1 2 3 "Julianna Smoot - The Washington Post". Washington Post. July 24, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
↑ "Factbox: Key players in Obama's re-election campaign". Reuters. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
↑ "Obama taps Washington insider as social secretary". Blnz.com. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
1 2 Kornblut, Anne; Krissah Thompson (March 3, 2010). "Julianna Smoot brings an insider's perspective to Obama's inner circle". Washington Post. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
↑ Marlantes, Liz; Greg McCown; Jean Garner (July 1, 2007). "Obama Takes In $32.5M Campaign Haul". ABC News. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
↑ Weisman, Jonathan (February 26, 2010). "Desiree Rogers to Leave White House". Washington Wire (blog). Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-01-02. White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, who has been under fire ever since Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, will resign in March, she told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet.
↑ "Capital Dames: 10 Powerful Women in DC (Julianna Smoot, The Go-To Fundraiser)". Elle. March 19, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
↑ Cillizza, Chris; Shailagh Murray (April 8, 2007). "Whatever the Postmarks Say, The Checks Are Made Out to Franken". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
↑ Cillizza, Chris (January 16, 2007). "Barack Obama's Impressive Team". The Fix (blog). Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
↑ David Jackson, USA TODAY (2014-01-31). "Obama library foundation is formed". Usatoday.com. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
↑ Gautz, Chris (February 23, 2013). "Longtime chair Mark Brewer is out; state Dems elect Lon Johnson". Crain's Detroit Business. Associated Press. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
↑ Gray, Kathleen (February 23, 2013). "Mark Brewer exits race for party chair after tense day at Michigan Democratic convention". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved February 23, 2013.

↑ "Michigan House of Representatives results". Detroit News. Associated Press. December 31, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-01. (quoted:)

 State House - District 103 - General
Michigan - 74 of 74 Precincts Reporting - 100%
 Name               Party Votes  Vote %
 Rendon , Bruce (i) GOP   23,259 53%
 Johnson , Lon      Dem   20,749 47%

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↑ Clark, Zoe; Rick Pluta (August 31, 2012). "It's Just Politics". Michigan Radio. Retrieved 2013-01-02. Representative Rendon sent out a fundraising letter that calls attention to the fact that Johnson’s wife ... is one of the people running President Obama’s reelection campaign, and a superstar of Democratic politics. ...Johnson released a letter that calls on his Republican opponent to lay off his wife.

External links

"Julianna Smoot collected news and commentary". The New York Times.

Barack Obama's Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Jack Lew Denis McDonough Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle Rob Nabors	2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013– 2009–11 2011–13 2013–15	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan	Jim Jones Thomas E. Donilon Susan Rice Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough Tony Blinken Avril Haines Douglas Lute^†	2009–10 2010–13 2013– 2009–10 2010–13 2013–14 2015– 2009–13
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco Anita Decker Breckenridge	2009–11 2011–14 2014–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	Ben Rhodes John O. Brennan Lisa Monaco	2009– 2009–13 2013–
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning	Mark B. Childress Kristie Canegallo	2012–14 2014–	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009–10 2011–12
Senior Advisor to the President	David Axelrod David Plouffe Daniel Pfeiffer Shailagh Murray	2009–11 2011–13 2013–15 2015–	White House Communications Director	Anita Dunn Daniel Pfeiffer Jennifer Palmieri Jen Psaki	2009 2009–13 2013–15 2015–
Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Pete Rouse Brian Deese Pete Rouse John Podesta	2009–10 2015– 2011–13 2014–15	Deputy White House Communications Director	Jen Psaki Jennifer Palmieri Amy Brundage	2009–11 2011–14 2014–15
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Director of Public Engagement Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Director, National Economic Council	Valerie Jarrett Christina Tchen Jon Carson Paulette Aniskoff Cecilia Muñoz David Agnew Jerry Abramson Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling Jeffrey Zients	2009– 2009–11 2011–13 2013– 2009–12 2012–14 2014– 2009–10 2011–14 2014–	White House Press Secretary Deputy Press Secretary Director of Special Projects Director of Speechwriting White House Counsel	Robert Gibbs Jay Carney Josh Earnest Bill Burton Josh Earnest Eric Schultz Stephanie Cutter Jon Favreau Cody Keenan Greg Craig Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler Neil Eggleston	2009–11 2011–13 2013– 2009–11 2011–13 2014– 2010–11 2009–13 2013– 2009–10 2010–11 2011–14 2014–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Diana Farrell Brian Deese Jason Furman Paul Volcker	2009–11 2011–13 2009–13 2009–11	Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors Miguel Rodriguez Katie Beirne Fallon Amy Rosenbaum	2009–11 2011–13 2013–2016 2016–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee Jason Furman	2009–10 2010–13 2013–	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski Amy Rosenbaum	2009– 2014–2016
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^† David Kalbaugh	2009–12 2012–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Director, Office of Political Affairs	Patrick Gaspard David Simas	2009–11 2013–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter R. Orszag Jack Lew Jeffrey Zients Sylvia Mathews Burwell Brian Deese Shaun Donovan	2009–10 2010–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014 2014–	Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer	Aneesh Chopra Todd Park Megan Smith Vivek Kundra Steven VanRoekel Tony Scott	2009–12 2012–14 2014– 2009–11 2011–14 2015–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–13	Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Nancy Hogan Johnathan McBride Valerie Green	2010–14 2014–15 2015–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom Brian Deese	2010 2011–13 2013–15	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle White Crutchfield George D. Mulligan Jr. Emmett Beliveau	2009–11 2011– 2009–13 2013–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk Michael Froman	2009–13 2013–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu Broderick Johnson	2009–13 2013–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes Cecilia Muñoz	2009–12 2012–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith Rachana Bhowmik Michael Robertson Gaurab Bansal	2009–11 2011–13 2013–15 2015–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–11 2011–	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown Rajesh De Douglas Kramer Joani Walsh	2009–11 2011–12 2012–13 2014–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois Melissa Rogers	2009–2013 2013–	Assistant to the President for Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley Katy Kale Maju Varghese	2009–13 2013–15 2015–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–11	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez Brian Mosteller	2009–12 2012–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–2011	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love Marvin Nicholson	2009–11 2011–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–11	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker Breckenridge Ferial Govashiri	2009–11 2011–14 2014–
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal Dan Utech	2009–2013 2013–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–11
Director, Council on Environmental Quality	Nancy Sutley Michael Boots	2009–2014 2014–	Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Jeffrey Crowley Grant Cofax Douglas Brooks	2009–2011 2012–2014 2014–
Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–10 2011–	Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske Michael Botticelli	2009–14 2014–
White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard Deesha Dyer	2009–10 2010–11 2011–15 2015–	Director, Office of Urban Affairs	Adolfo Carrión Jr. Racquel Russell	2009–2010 2010–
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

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