President-elect Donald Trump has named Stacey Feinberg as the next American ambassador to Luxembourg, over a month before his upcoming 20 January inauguration.
Trump posted the announcement on social media platform Truth Social, in a series of posts that also included his ambassador picks for Japan, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Austria.
Feinberg is a businesswoman and advocate for female business leaders as a board member of the Women Founders’ Network. She studied at Northwestern University and started her career at her father’s sports and entertainment law firm. Her father was the lawyer and sports agent Bob Woolf (1928-1993).
She was in the news during the Republican National Convention in July defending gun ownership rights in the wake of the assassination attempt against Trump. “I don’t think it’s about guns, because guns don’t kill people, crazy people kill people; mentally ill people kill people,” Feinberg told Reuters at the time.
After Trump’s first ascent to the White House in January 2017, many embassies around the world were left without an ambassador for extended periods. Trump nominated his pick for Luxembourg, Randy Evans, in September that year and his nomination was approved by the Senate in May 2018.
Joe Biden, too, waited until August 2021 to appoint now-outgoing ambassador Thomas Barrett, who was approved in December the same year.
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