When President Biden announced Linda Thomas-Greenfield as his pick for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, he lauded her as a "seasoned and distinguished diplomat with 35 years in the foreign service who never forgot where she came from growing up in segregated Louisiana."
Read MoreTable for 12, Please: HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge
Globally, there are currently 22 gender-balanced cabinets, 14 of which have at least 50% women ministers.* If Biden's nominees are approved, the United States will finally join this group, with 12 of the U.S.'s 23 Cabinet-level positions being held by women. In this Table for 12 series, I'm focusing on the 12 women and women of color in Biden's cabinet, the most ever. This week: Marcia Fudge.
Read MoreTable for 12, Please: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
If her nomination is confirmed, Deb Haaland will become the nation's most powerful Native American leader in our 243-year history. Haaland's meteoric rise in Washington started at the local level in New Mexico, first as a voting rights activist for nearly a decade.
Read MoreTable for 12, Please: Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines became the first of President Joe Biden's Cabinet nominees to be approved by the Senate on his very first day in office. Her path to the top position in the intelligence community is an interesting one.
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