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

Julianna Smoot is a political fundraiser for the Democratic Party. She was a Deputy Manager of Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign, having previously served as White House Social Secretary, Deputy Assistant to the President. and Chief of Staff to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Smoot previously served as a professional fundraiser for the Democratic Party. 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. She was named Social Secretary after her predecessor, Desirée Rogers resigned on February 26, 2010.

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. 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.