House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to ever hold that title, will soon have a woman as her chief of staff.
Her current chief of staff, Danny Weiss, will leave the post on March 25. He’ll be replaced by Terri McCullough, who has worked for years in Pelosi’s office.
McCullough started as an intern in Pelosi’s San Francisco office in 1991, and worked for a few non-profit groups before returning to Pelosi’s office. One of those non-profit groups was the abortion advocacy group NARAL.
Pelosi, D-Calif., said McCullough will be the first paid full-time female chief of staff “in modern times.” The change comes as Democrats have been celebrating the record number of women in the House, who now make up nearly a quarter of the lower chamber.
But McCullough won’t be the first woman to hold the job. Former Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., who ran the chamber from 1989 until 1995, employed his own wife, Heather, as an unpaid chief of staff.
