President Donald Trump announced today he is nominating Florida’s Sharon Day as ambassador to Costa Rica, reported the Tampa Bay Times this morning.
Day has been a Trump campaign loyalist, appearing at numerous rallies in Florida, and is a key figure in Republican politics, having spoken at last year’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
She has also served as co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
An excerpt from a White House press release reads as follows:
“She has served the Republican Party at the local, state, and national level for more than twenty years, with a focus on engaging and empowering women candidates and activists, as well as strengthening state parties and volunteerism. She is an active political columnist and commentator. Earlier in her career, she was the chief executive officer and vice president of Marketing of Stop Loss International, a general managing underwriter and reinsurance company, headquartered in Indianapolis. Ms. Day has also been active in community service, including as housing authority chair for the Broward County Housing Authority and as commissioner on the Florida Commission on the Status of Women.”
Day will replace Obama’s nominee currently serving in the post. S. Fitzgerald Haney, current U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, was sworn in on June 1, 2015, and in January 2017 learned he would continue in the post under Trump for an unspecified amount of time, said the State Department.




