Margaret D. Tutwiler

Margaret Tutwiler

Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler (born December 28, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the US State Department, serving from December 16, 2003 to June 30, 2004. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 9, 2003 to replace outgoing Under Secretary Charlotte Beers. Tutwiler was given the task of leading "the government's public-relations drive to build a favorable impression abroad." She had previously been Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1989 to 1992.

Tutwiler was the ambassador to Morocco from March 2001 until 2003. In July 2004, Tutwiler began directing communications for NYSE Euronext. Her boss at the NYSE, John Thain, would later bring her on board as head of communications at Merrill Lynch in December 2007 and then at CIT Group in August 2010.

Tutwiler is a member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute.

External links

• Margaret Tutwiler Diaries at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
• USC Center on Public Diplomacy Profile
• Interview in Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
• Profile in the Alabama Academy of Honor.
• Margaret Tutwiler's diaries from her time as State Department Spokesman and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under Secretary of State James Baker at Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

References

Government offices
Preceded by Charles E. Redman	Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs March 3, 1989 – August 23, 1992	Succeeded by Thomas E. Donilon