Elizabeth Fitzsimmons

Fitzsimmons earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia.[2]

Fitzsimmons is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor. She has served overseas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, India and Bulgaria. She has also worked in the State Department's Operations Center and as Deputy Director of the State Department's Executive Secretariat. Other assignments included being deputy executive secretary to Secretaries John Kerry and Rex Tillerson, senior advisor at the Foreign Service Institute, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Public Diplomacy) in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.[2] From October 1, 2018, to 2021, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Africa and Public Diplomacy.[3] Prior to that, she was Acting Deputy Spokesperson for the Department. Since January 2021, she has served as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs.[2]

On August 4, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Fitzsimmons to be the next United States Ambassador to Togo.[2] On August 9, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate.[4] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Elizabeth Anne Noseworthy married Trevor Morrison Fitzsimmons on November 27, 1999. Her father was the associate medical director and the chief of surgery at the Nemours Children's Clinic in Jacksonville. Her mother was the president of the Delaware Symphony from 1993 to 1995 and its chairwoman in 1995 and 1996.[1]