Obama's Pick for US Ambassador to Mexico Withdraws Her Nomination Colby Itkowitz - The Washington Post
go to original February 1, 2015

Maria Echaveste (LCCR & LCCREF/Flickr)

Still waiting for her confirmation hearing six months after she was nominated, President Obama’s pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Mexico has withdrawn her nomination.

Maria Echaveste, whose parents were Mexican immigrants, would have been the first woman to have the post. She cited the lengthy process and her family when she pulled her name from consideration, the White House told Politico, who first reported her decision.

Echaveste was Bill Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, is a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton and an advocate for immigration reform – which all would have made her a target by the now Republican-controlled Senate.

President Bill Clinton goes over his 1999 State of the Union speech with speech writer Michael Waldman and Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste in the Oval Office. (Rick Bowmer/The Washington Post)

When she was first nominated in September, Post Mexico correspondent Joshua Partlow wrote about the strengthens she’d bring, but also the challenges she’d face running one of the United States’ largest embassy staffs, in a country with so many critical issues like trade and border security.

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