Counselor of the United States Department of State
In office August 6, 1997 – January 20, 2001
President
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
Tim Wirth
Succeeded by
Philip D. Zelikow
Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
In office May 12, 1993 – March 29, 1996
President
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
Janet G. Mullins Grissom
Succeeded by
Barbara Larkin
Personal details
Born
Wendy Ruth Sherman
(1949-06-07) June 7, 1949 (age 74) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Bruce Stokes
Children
1
Education
Smith College Boston University (BA) University of Maryland, Baltimore (MSW)
Wendy Ruth Sherman (born June 7, 1949)[1] is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She 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 Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.[2]
Sherman, a social worker, served as the director of EMILY's List, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae Foundation. During the Clinton administration, she served as counselor of the United States Department of State from 1997 to 2001. She was also a special advisor to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the North Korea policy coordinator. In the latter role, she was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.[3]
Sherman served under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry as under secretary of state for political affairs from 2011 to 2015.[4][5] She was the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State.[6] In that role, Sherman was the lead negotiator for the Iran nuclear deal.[7] After winning the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden nominated Sherman to serve as United States Deputy Secretary of State, under Antony Blinken.[8]
^"Wendy R. Sherman". U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. September 21, 2011. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
^"Wendy R. Sherman". United States Department of State. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
^Levkowitz, Alon (2014). "Negotiating with Iran:: Lessons from America's Failed Nuclear Accord with North Korea". Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Pazzanese, Christina (January 6, 2020). "Wendy Sherman on where we are as Iran shrugs off nuclear deal". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^Carter, Cathy (February 17, 2020). "In Sarasota, Obama Official Talks Foreign Policy, Calls Killing Of Iranian General 'A Risk'". WUSF News. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
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