Jennifer Palmieri
| Jennifer Palmieri | |
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| White House Director of Communications | |
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In office January 25, 2013 – April 1, 2015 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Dan Pfeiffer |
| Succeeded by | Jen Psaki |
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November 15, 1966 Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | American University (BA) |
Jennifer Palmieri (/ˈdʒɛnᵻfər pɔːlˈmɛəri/; born November 15, 1966) was Director of Communications for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Palmieri served as White House Communications Director for U.S. President Barack Obama. Prior to her service at the White House, she served as the President of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Earlier, Palmieri was the National Press Secretary for the 2004 John Edwards presidential campaign and for the Democratic National Committee in 2002. She served as a Deputy White House Press Secretary, Special Assistant to White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta and Deputy Director of Scheduling and Advance in the Clinton White House.
Palmieri was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi. After attending American University, she began her career working for then Congressman Leon Panetta (D-CA).
Palmieri attracted controversy for "attacking two major faith groups--evangelicals and Catholics" during the hack of 2016 emails that lead to calls for her resignation. The email chains between Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and John Halpin from the left-wing Center for American Progress.
In one of these alleged emails, "Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups. It's an amazing bastardization of the faith. They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy. I imagine they think [Catholicism] is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals." Palmieri was reportedly referring to Rupert Murdoch raising his children as Catholics; Murdoch's former wife, Anna (née Torv), by whom he had three children, is Catholic.
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