Sally Jewell

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Sally Jewell (2013)

Sally Margaret Jewell (born February 21, 1956 in London ) is an American entrepreneur and politician. She was the United States Secretary of the Interior in the Obama Cabinet from 2013 to 2017 . Before that, she was an entrepreneur and managed the outdoor goods trading company Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) , which is organized as a consumer cooperative and has 11.6 million members, an annual turnover of 1.8 billion dollars and over 11,000 employees (as of 2011).

Life

Sally Jewell was born Sally Margaret Roffey in London. She is the daughter of Peter Roffey, a British anesthetist , and his wife Anne, a nurse practitioner. The family emigrated from England to the USA in 1959, where Peter Roffey had received a position as a fellow at the University of Washington . Her parents had left England because of the ossified class system they found. Sally Jewell completed until 1973, the State High School in Renton . When she was 19, she was granted citizenship of the United States . In 1978 she earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington, and shortly thereafter married an engineer.

She then worked, like her husband, for Mobil Oil on oil fields in Oklahoma, among others . In 1981 she moved to Rainier Bank when they were looking for industry experts for lending to the oil industry; the bank was later taken over by Security Pacific . From 1992 to 1995 she was with WestOne Bank , until 2000 with Washington Mutual . From 1996 Jewell was on the board of directors of REI, in 2000 she was appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) and in 2005 Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Puget Sound Business Journal magazine named CEO of the Year of 2006. In 2009, the National Audubon Society recognized Jewell for her contribution to conservation with the Rachel Carson Award.

In February 2013, US President Barack Obama nominated her for the office of Secretary of the Interior. She was sworn in on April 10, 2013 as the successor to Ken Salazar . To their decision to Mount McKinley officially in Alaska again Denali according to local tradition and practice - - to call, made in 2015 for attention. According to Jewell, her three greatest achievements were improving federal relations with the Indians, taking initiatives to take children outside, and helping to preserve landscapes. Her term of office ended with Obama's presidency on January 20, 2017. She retired into private life for the time being.

Jewell is married to an engineer and has two grown children. In her spare time, she does sports in the great outdoors, such as snowboarding , kayaking and mountaineering; Among other things, she has climbed the highest mountain in Antarctica, the four-thousand-meter Mount Vinson . She served on the boards of Premera Blue Cross health insurance , the National Parks Conservation Association, and the University of Washington's Board of Regents, and helped found the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ British woman nominated as first female member of Barack Obama's new cabinet. In: The Daily Telegraph , February 6, 2013.
  2. ↑ A profile of REI's Sally Jewell: Team player at her peak. In: The Seattle Times , March 23, 2005.
  3. ↑ New Interior Chief Savors a Steep Learning Curve. In: The New York Times , April 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Obama appoints manager as home secretary. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ Obama's cabinet: Ex-manager Jewell is the new US Secretary of the Interior. In: Spiegel Online , April 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ Julie Hirschfeld Davis: Mount McKinley Will Again Be Called Denali. In: The New York Times , August 30, 2015.
  7. ^ Lynda V. Mapes: Sally Jewell reflects on time as secretary of the Interior. In: The Seattle Times , January 18, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jewell, Sally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jewell, Sally Margaret (full name); Roffey, Sally (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur, United States Secretary of the Interior
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London