Julissa Reynoso
| Julissa Reynoso | |
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| United States Ambassador to Uruguay | |
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In office May 9, 2012 – December 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David D. Nelson |
| Succeeded by | Kelly Keiderling |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 2, 1975 Salcedo, Hermanas Mirabal, Dominican Republic |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University University of Cambridge Columbia Law School |
| Occupation |
Attorney Diplomat |
Julissa Reynoso (born January 2, 1975) is a diplomat and attorney. She is currently a partner with the international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, practicing in the firm's International Arbitration and Latin America groups. Reynoso is also affiliated with the faculty at Columbia University School of Law and the School of International and Public Affairs. From March 2012 until December 2014, she served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay. She is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States Department of State.
A native of the Dominican Republic, Reynoso immigrated to the United States in 1982. She graduated valedictorian of her class at Aquinas High School in the Bronx. She was admitted to Harvard University, where she helped found several student groups and was active with The Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
After obtaining a B.A. at Harvard University in 1997, Reynoso was named the John Harvard Scholar and obtained an M.Phil. degree in 1998 from the University of Cambridge in England. Reynoso received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2001. At Columbia, she was the editor for The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After Law School, she clerked for the Honorable Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain.
In 2008, Reynoso was active in former Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency before joining the campaign of then Sen. Barack Obama.
Prior to joining the Obama administration, Reynoso was an attorney in private practice at the international law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York. Reynoso resided in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan and served on the boards of several non-profit groups. She also served as a legal fellow at Columbia Law School and the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law.
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