Still serving · 2025–
Susie Wiles
White House Chief of Staff
Jack Kemp’s office, Reagan’s campaign, Florida for forty years, then the first woman to run the West Wing. The 2024 campaign was hers to manage. She won.
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Career
Awards, firsts, the work
Kemp, then Reagan
Daughter of the sportscaster Pat Summerall. University of Maryland, English. She entered Republican politics in 1979 in Jack Kemp’s Washington office, then Reagan’s presidential campaign. The rest of the résumé is Florida.
SourceBallotpediaTrump’s Florida, three cycles
State director in Florida for 2016 and 2020. Co-campaign manager, with Chris LaCivita, of the 2024 race that took every swing state. Operatives in both parties had called her one of the most respected in the business. The Electoral College was the proof.
SourceNBC NewsFirst woman White House chief of staff
Named the day after the election. Sworn January 20, 2025, 32nd chief of staff — and the first woman in the chair in American history. The gate. Who gets in the Oval, and who does not.
SourceNBC NewsFlorida GOP Statesman of the Year
July 2025: Florida Republicans named her Statesman of the Year. A home-state prize for the operative who had just become the most powerful unelected woman in the country.
SourceWLRN