Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley | |
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Crowley in 2025 | |
| 35th Chief of Protocol of the United States | |
| Assumed office May 30, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Rufus Gifford |
| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs | |
| In office July 24, 2019 – January 20, 2021 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Tony Sayegh |
| Succeeded by | Calvin Mitchell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Monica Elizabeth Crowley September 19, 1968 Fort Huachuca, Arizona, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Relatives | Jocelyn Elise Crowley (sister) |
| Education | Colgate University (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
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Monica Elizabeth Crowley (born September 19, 1968) is an American diplomat and former political commentator who has served as the 35th chief of protocol of the United States since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, she served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury as the assistant secretary for public affairs in the first Trump administration from 2019 to 2021. She was a Fox News contributor, where she worked (with a few breaks) from 1996 to 2017, and was an opinion editor for The Washington Times and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In December 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint Crowley as deputy national security advisor. She withdrew a month later following reports that she had plagiarized portions of her 2012 book What the (Bleep) Just Happened? and that there were "localized instances of plagiarism" of her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation that Columbia concluded did not meet the level of "research misconduct". In 2019, Trump announced Crowley's appointment as spokesperson for the Treasury Department, serving until 2021. After the 2024 presidential election, Crowley was nominated to serve in the U.S. Department of State as chief of protocol in the second Trump administration.