Lisette M. Mondello

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Lisette McSoud Mondello
Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
In office May 4, 2006 – April 24, 2009
President	George W. Bush Barack Obama
Preceded by	Cynthia R. Church
Succeeded by	Tammy Duckworth
Personal details
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Trinity University (BA)

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.

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]

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