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Stephanie Grisham, Press Secretary and Communications Director for the First Lady Melania Trump, talks on the phone before President Donald J. Trump arrives to pardon Peas the turkey during the presentation of the National Thanksgiving turkey in the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018 in Washington, DC.
- Stephanie Grisham was announced in June as President Donald Trump's newest press secretary.
- The native Arizonian cut her teeth working for state lawmakers and on Sen. Mitt Romney's unsuccessful 2012 presidential campaign.
- Grisham was first lady Melania Trump's communications director before becoming Trump's press secretary. CNN was the first to report Tuesday that she was going back to the East Wing as the first lady's chief of staff.
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Stephanie Grisham became President Donald Trump's press secretary in June 2019, and though she came to the office as a lesser-known face than Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she had a track record as a loyal Trump staffer long before her time as a senior White House staffer.
Grisham worked on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign after stints with Sen. Mitt Romney and Arizona state lawmakers.
Though Grisham's road to the White House has been unpredictable and sometimes scandalous, she's been lauded by the Trumps, including the first lady's praise that she "can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country."
When the East Wing announced Tuesday she was moving back to work in the first lady's office, Grisham left behind a track record of controversy from her tense relationship with the White House press corps. She never held a press briefing.
See how Grisham rose to press secretary position, making history as the fourth woman ever to serve in the role.