Louisa Terrell

Louisa Terrell is an American lawyer. She is Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.[1][2][3][4]

Louisa Terrell
White House Director of Legislative Affairs
Assumed office
January 20, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byAmy Swonger
Personal details
BornDelaware, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationTufts University (BA)
Boston College (JD)

Life

She was born in Delaware. She graduated from Tufts University, and Boston College Law School.[5][6] In 2001, she was on the staff of Joe Biden.[7] She was chief of staff for Cory Booker, and advisor to Tom Wheeler. She was a legislative aide to Barack Obama.[7] She was director of federal policy and strategy, at Yahoo, public policy director at Facebook, and was deputy general counsel at McKinsey & Company.[2] She was visiting faculty at the Biden Institute.[8]

In 2021, she lobbied moderate Republicans and Democrats on the American Jobs Plan, which eventually passed the United States Senate in August 2021 as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.[9][10][11]

References
  1. Macaya, Melissa (2020-11-20). "Biden announces more members of White House senior staff". CNN. Retrieved 2021-06-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Meet President Biden's legislative affairs chief". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  3. "Terrell to lead Biden's legislative affairs shop". Roll Call. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  4. News, Scott Waldman,E&E. "Meet Biden’s Climate Voice on Capitol Hill". Scientific American. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  5. "Louisa Terrell: From Tufts to the Biden administration". The Tufts Daily. 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  6. "Louisa Terrell | Boston College Law School Magazine". Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  7. "Biden's Congress Whisperer". POLITICO. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  8. "Blue Hens in the House | UD Magazine | UDaily". www.udel.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  9. Monroe, Madeline (2021-06-23). "White House digs in as infrastructure talks stall". TheHill. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  10. "White House team cites progress in talks with bipartisan infrastructure group". Reuters. 2021-06-22. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  11. Broadwater, Luke (2021-05-25). "Coons, Biden's Eyes and Ears in the Senate, Reaches for Bipartisanship". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
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