Lisette M. Mondello

Lisette McSoud Mondello is an American political advisor who served as Assistant United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs from 2006 to 2009.

Lisette McSoud Mondello
Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
In office
May 4, 2006 – April 24, 2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byCynthia R. Church
Succeeded byTammy Duckworth
Personal details
Political partyRepublican
Alma materTrinity University (BA)

Education

Mondello earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University in San Antonio.[1]

Career

After graduating from college, Mondello worked as a press aide for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, Alfonse D'Amato of New York, and Congressman James M. Collins of Texas. She worked as senior vice president for the Spaeth Communications, a communications and public relations culsultantcy firm founded by Merrie Spaeth, a former communications advisor in the Reagan Administration. She then served as executive director of the Texas Foundation for Conservative Studies and Associated Texans Against Crime.

Before serving in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, she was senior advisor to the United States Secretary of Education and helped develop the long-term communications plan for the No Child Left Behind Act.[2][3][4]

Mondello was succeeded by Tammy Duckworth.[5][6] Mondello has operated The Mondello Group, a government relations and communications from, since 2012.[7]

References
  1. "A Veteran Mom | Trinity University". new.trinity.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  2. "Mondello Sworn in as VA Assistant Secretary" (Press release). Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs. 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  3. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 2005.
  4. "Personnel Announcement". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  5. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2009. Government Printing Office. 2011-04-28. ISBN 978-0-16-088007-0.
  6. Congress, United States (2009). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  7. "Mondello Group The LLC - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
Political offices
Preceded by
Cynthia R. Church		 Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs
May 4, 2006 - April 24, 2009		 Succeeded by
Tammy Duckworth
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