Hannah Rosenthal

Hannah Rosenthal (born 1951) served as a Special Envoy and as the head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism in the Obama Administration for three years, since she was sworn into office on November 23, 2009 until October 5, 2012.

Rosenthal served as the founding executive director of the Wisconsin Women's Council, 1985-1992. She is featured in the Council's 25th Anniversary Tribute video. She also is the former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), and former executive director of the Chicago Foundation for Women. She was the vice president for community relations for the not-for-profit WPS Health Insurance Corporation. Rosenthal served on the advisory council of J Street and J Street PAC. In the 2008 presidential election, she supported and contributed to Hillary Clinton. She served on the board of Americans for Peace Now.

In 1995, Rosenthal was appointed by the Clinton Administration to serve as Midwest regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She headed JCPA from August 2000 to 2005. In 2005, she was named one of the Forward 50, a list of the most influential Jews selected by The Forward newspaper.

According to Jewish Standard, Rosenthal did not want to become the Special Envoy and "was advocating for someone else in the role", but the State Department Official Michael Posner "was very insistent.” In the same article she described her views on antisemitism: “Some of the criticism Israel sees and its isolation in the United Nations clearly comes from a place of anti-Semitism, but not all of it does. We need to call out anti-Semitism when it’s there.”

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