Louisa Terrell
{{Short description|American lawyer (born 1969)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Louisa Terrell
|image = Louisa Terrell 2022 (cropped).jpg
|office = White House Director of Legislative Affairs
|president = Joe Biden
|term_start = January 20, 2021
|term_end = August 1, 2023
|predecessor = Amy Swonger
|successor = Shuwanza Goff
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|8|17}}
|birth_place = Delaware, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Democratic
|education = Tufts University (BA)
Boston College (JD)
}}
Louisa Terrell (born August 17, 1969){{Cite web |last1=Lizza |first1=Ryan |last2=Daniels |first2=Eugene |title=POLITICO Playbook: Scoop: Liz Cheney's next move |url=https://politi.co/3QLXQBW |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=Politico |date=17 August 2022 |language=en}} is an American lawyer and former government official. From 2021 to 2023, Terrell served as director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs under President Joe Biden.{{Cite web|last=Macaya|first=Melissa|date=2020-11-20|title=Biden announces more members of White House senior staff|url=https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-us-election-news-11-20-20/h_b6e4c0256a3c3bfd379b8aca7af6c735|access-date=2021-06-25|website=CNN|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Meet President Biden's legislative affairs chief|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/meet-president-bidens-legislative-affairs-chief/ar-BB1dz3L2|access-date=2021-06-25|website=www.msn.com}}{{Cite web|date=2020-11-20|title=Terrell to lead Biden's legislative affairs shop|url=https://www.rollcall.com/2020/11/20/terrell-to-lead-bidens-legislative-affairs-shop/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Roll Call|language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Waldman |first=Scott |title=Meet Biden's Climate Voice on Capitol Hill |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-bidens-climate-voice-on-capitol-hill/ |access-date=2021-06-25 |website=Scientific American |language=en}} Prior to this, Terrell served in a variety of government and private sector positions, including as a member of Biden's Senate staff and as a public policy director at Facebook.
Early life and education
Terrell was born in Delaware on August 17, 1969. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor degree from Boston College Law School.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-22|title=Louisa Terrell: From Tufts to the Biden administration|url=https://tuftsdaily.com/features/2021/03/22/louisa-terrell-from-tufts-to-the-biden-administration/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=The Tufts Daily|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Louisa Terrell {{!}} Boston College Law School Magazine|url=https://lawmagazine.bc.edu/class_note/louisa-terrell/|access-date=2021-06-25|language=en-US}}
Terrell has known President Joe Biden almost her entire life. She was a classmate of his son Beau Biden from kindergarten on. She has maintained this connection to the Bidens to the present day.{{Cite web |last=Bash |first=Dana |date=2022-12-11 |title=Meet the woman steering Biden's bipartisan winning streak on Capitol Hill |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/11/politics/louisa-terrell-legislative-director/index.html |access-date=2023-06-06 |website=CNN}}
Career
In 2001, she was on the Senate staff of Joe Biden. She was chief of staff for Cory Booker, and advisor to Tom Wheeler. She was a legislative aide to Barack Obama.{{Cite web|title=Biden's Congress Whisperer|url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/15/biden-congress-whisperer-louisa-terrell-legislative-affairs-445904|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Politico|date=15 December 2020 |language=en}} She was director of federal policy and strategy, at Yahoo, public policy director at Facebook, and was deputy general counsel at McKinsey & Company. She was visiting faculty at the Biden Institute.{{Cite web|title=Blue Hens in the House {{!}} UD Magazine {{!}} UDaily|url=https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2021/april/blue-hens-in-the-house/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=www.udel.edu|language=en}}
= Biden Administration =
Following Joe Biden's inauguration as President of the United States, Terrell was appointed director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. 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.{{Cite web|last=Monroe|first=Madeline|date=2021-06-23|title=White House digs in as infrastructure talks stall|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/559739-white-house-digs-in-as-infrastructure-talks-stall|access-date=2021-06-25|website=The Hill|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2021-06-22|title=White House team cites progress in talks with bipartisan infrastructure group|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-team-cites-progress-talks-with-bipartisan-infrastructure-group-2021-06-22/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Reuters}}{{Cite news|last=Broadwater|first=Luke|date=2021-05-25|title=Coons, Biden's Eyes and Ears in the Senate, Reaches for Bipartisanship|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/politics/chris-coons-biden.html|access-date=2021-06-25|issn=0362-4331}}
Terrell, along with Shalanda Young and Steve Ricchetti, was tapped to lead the Democratic side in negotiations over the 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis.{{cite news |title=Debt limit progress as Biden, McCarthy name top negotiators to avert national default |url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-mccarthy-debt-limit-default-ce36241e652f7eb022009152001c254e |newspaper=Associated Press |date=2023-05-16}} She was due to depart at the end of July 2023.{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/14/biden-top-legislative-director-to-step-down-00106369 | title=Biden's top legislative director to step down | website=Politico | date=14 July 2023 }}
= Post Biden-Administration =
Terrell serves as a managing director{{Cite web |title=Louisa Terrell {{!}} Managing Director {{!}} Macro Advisory Partners |url=https://macroadvisorypartners.com/our-people/directors/louisa-terrell |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=MAP |language=en}} with Macro Advisory Partners, a company which provides businesses with strategic advice.{{Cite web |title=MAP {{!}} Our Counsel |url=https://macroadvisorypartners.com/our-counsel |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=MAP |language=en}}
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