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Wendy Sherman

1949 - Today

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Wendy Ruth Sherman (born June 7, 1949) 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 the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wendy Sherman is the 77th most popular diplomat, the 9,653rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,094th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Wendy Sherman ranks 77 out of 90. Before her are Jacques Diouf, Max Jakobson, Bajrakitiyabha, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, and Thomas A. Shannon Jr.. After her are Vasily Nebenzya, Adolph Dubs, Sumner Welles, Peter Maurer, Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa, and Ibrahim Gambari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Wendy Sherman ranks 578. Before her are Enrique Wolff, Roger Allers, Bill O'Reilly, Sanja Iveković, Daniel Pipes, and Richard Thompson. After her are Jack McGee, Kęstutis Šapka, Gregory Areshian, David A. Johnston, Michael Hogan, and Bonnie J. Dunbar.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wendy Sherman ranks 9,655 out of 20,380. Before her are Russi Taylor (1944), January Jones (1978), Anthony W. Gardiner (1820), Rufus Thomas (1917), Peabo Bryson (1951), and Chris Poland (1957). After her are Howard Zieff (1927), Donald Richie (1924), Robert Eggers (1983), Beth Broderick (1959), Jed Allan (1935), and Adriano Directo Emperado (1926).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United States

Among diplomats born in United States, Wendy Sherman ranks 18. Before her are Richard Armitage (1945), Ralph Bunche (1904), Victoria Nuland (1961), Joseph Grew (1880), Edward M. House (1858), and Thomas A. Shannon Jr. (1958). After her are Adolph Dubs (1920), Sumner Welles (1892), and Barbara Barrett (1950).

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