Crystal Nix-Hines (born 1963) served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador between July 2014 and January 2017.
Crystal Nix-Hines | |
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| United States Ambassador to UNESCO | |
| In office July 16, 2014 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Killion |
| Succeeded by | Courtney O'Donnell |
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| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Early life and education
editCrystal Nix grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, where her father, Theophilus R. Nix Sr., was the second African-American attorney admitted to the Delaware bar, and her mother, Dr. Lulu Mae Nix, founded social service organizations.[1] She attended the Wilmington Friends School, along with her sister and two brothers, one of whom is corporate counsel at DuPont Corporation.[2]
In 1985, Nix-Hines was graduated from Princeton University, where she was a classmate of Michelle Robinson Obama and the editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian.[3] From 2006 she served for nine years on Princeton's Board of Trustees.[4] In 1990, she graduated from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review with Barack Obama.[5]
Career
editFollowing law school, she clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1991. From 1991 to 1992, she clerked for Justices Thurgood Marshall and Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court.[2]
During her legal career, Nix-Hines has worked at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Fairbank & Vincent and O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. She also served as Assistant to the General Counsel/Senior Vice President of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. and held several positions at the State Department, including Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, member of the Department's Policy Planning Staff, and Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser.
Nix-Hines has also worked as a writer and producer on several network television shows such as Commander-in-Chief, Alias, and The Practice.[6] She began her career as a reporter for The New York Times (in his memoir The Times of My Life and My Life at the Times, former Times executive editor Max Frankel wrote that in leaving journalism for law, Ms. Nix had “left a promising reporting career.”)[7]
UNESCO Ambassador
editOn July 9, 2013, Nix-Hines was nominated by President Obama to the position of United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of ambassador.[8] Nix-Hines was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 12, 2014, and sworn into office on July 16, 2014.[9] During her tenure, she and her husband, David Hines, resided in Paris, France.[10] In January 20, 2017, at the end of Obama's term, she stepped down from the post.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Theophilus R. Nix Sr., 83, Was Civil Rights Pioneer", Vineyard Gazette (Martha's Vineyard, MA), September 9, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^ a b Bickley, Bill (Fall 2014). "Crystal Nix-Hines '81 New UNESCO Ambassador". Quaker Matters, a magazine of the Wilmington Friends School. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ Smith, Ben (May 29, 2009). "Princeton key to knowing Sotomayor". Politico. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
- ^ "Six named to Board of Trustees", Princeton University, June 9, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^ "Obama Posse List (Hill Harper & Crystal Nix Hines)" Archived June 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, On Being a Black Lawyer blog, December 3, 2008 (Nix-Hines: "'But over time, as we spent hours together editing articles at the Harvard Law Review, I came to see and understand the depth of Barack's commitment to social change'."). Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^ Moore, Frazier (October 11, 2005). "Is Geena Davis a Hillary Clinton stand-in?". Today Show. Associated Press. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ News articles by Crystal Nix-Hines, The New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
- ^ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. July 9, 2013. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ "Crystal Nix-Hines is Sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO". U.S. Mission to UNESCO. July 16, 2014. Archived from the original on April 27, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ^ "20th Anniversary Celebration of UNESCO Slave Route Project", Entree to Black Paris blog, September 18, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
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