Linda Douglass
Linda Douglass was the Head of Communications for Bloomberg in Washington DC until July, 2019. Prior to that, she was the Global Head of Communications for Bloomberg Media in New York. During President Barack Obama's first term, she was director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform in the Obama Administration. In June 2010, she was named Vice President, Head of Corporate and Strategic communications at Atlantic Media and later became Senior Vice President of Global Communications. In 2013, she moved to Italy when her husband, John Phillips, was named ambassador to Italy. In 2019, she endorsed Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Douglass was first associated with Barack Obama as a senior strategist and spokeswoman of his presidential campaign. She joined his campaign on May 21, 2008. Following Obama's victory in the November 2008 presidential elections, Douglass was appointed spokeswoman for the presidential inauguration committee.
Douglass had a long career as journalist with ABC News and CBS News and covered some of the major events of the 1990s and early 2000s. She was awarded the National Press Foundation's Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress in 1999. She
began her journalism career in 1973 with KNXT, the CBS owned-and-operated station in Los Angeles.Education
Douglass holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Southern California.Family
Douglass is married to the former United States ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips, and they have a daughter.
