“People in Michigan feel like Washington is broken and they don’t have representatives who remember that they are public servants first. I know something about being a public servant.”
- Elissa Slotkin
POLITICAL CAREER
Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense (2015-2017)
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2012-2015)
Senior Advisor on Middle East Transition (2011-2012)
US Department of State Senior Advisor on Iraq (2009-2011)
National Security Council Director for Iraq (2007-2009)
CIA Team Leader, Iran in Iraq Cell (2006-2007)
Senior Assistant to the Director of National Intelligence (2005-2006)
CIA Intelligence Briefer to the US Ambassador (2004-2005)
CIA Political Analyst (2003-2004)
COMMITTEES SERVED ON
Committee on Armed Services
Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
INTERESTING FACTS
Awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service
Worked as a writer for a feminist center in Haifa, gaining an endorsement by Emily’s List
Her family founded Hygrade Foods, which created the Ballpark Frank