Crystal Nix-Hines

Crystal Nix-Hines
United States Ambassador to UNESCO
Incumbent
Assumed office July 16, 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	David Killion
Personal details
Born	1963 (age 52–53)
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard University

Crystal Nix-Hines (born 1963) is the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of ambassador. Ambassador Nix-Hines was previously Of Counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Los Angeles. Previously, she was Of Counsel at Fairbank & Vincent from 2006 to 2007, Special Counsel in the Litigation Department of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP from 1997 to 2000, and Assistant to the General Counsel/Senior Vice President of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997, she held several positions at the State Department, including Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Member of the Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser. From 1991 to 1992, she clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the United States Supreme Court. She also clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1990 to 1991.

During her career, Nix-Hines has also been a writer and producer on several network television shows such as Commander-in-Chief, Alias, and The Practice. She began her career as a reporter for the New York Times (in his memoir The Times of My Life and My Life at the Times, former Times executive editor Max Frankel wrote that in leaving journalism for law, Ms. Nix had “left a promising reporting career.”)

On July 9, 2013, Crystal Nix-Hines was nominated by President Obama to the position of United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of ambassador. Nix-Hines was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 12, 2014.

External links

• Crystal Nix-Hines at the Internet Movie Database
• Crystal Nix-Hines at the United States Mission to UNESCO
• Crystal Nix-Hines at the U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian