Category: U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo


Gina Raimondo was confirmed as U.S. secretary of commerce on March 2, 2021. She served as governor of Rhode Island from 2015-2021, the first woman to serve as Rhode Island's governor, and as Rhode Island's treasurer from 2011-2015, only the second woman to serve in that role in Rhode Island. Raimondo was born May 17, 1971, in Smithfield, Rhode Island. She earned a B.A. in economics from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in sociology from Oxford University (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After […]