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Ann Lewis

Ann C. Frank Lewis (born December 19, 1937) is an American Democratic Party strategist. Lewis served as White House Communications Director in the Clinton administration and in senior roles under Hillary Clinton. She is currently the co-chair of the Democratic Majority for Israel.

Lewis was born to a Jewish family in 1937 in Jersey City, New Jersey. She is the older sister of former United States Congressman Barney Frank. She attended Radcliffe College, the former women's college within Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but did not graduate. While there, she met Gerald A. Lewis, whom she married and with whom she subsequently moved to Florida. They divorced in 1968 and Lewis moved back to Massachusetts.

From 1994 to 1995, Lewis was the vice president for public policy at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she was responsible for policy, legal and communications initiatives. She has served as the national director of Americans for Democratic Action, as the political director for the Democratic National Committee, and as chief of staff to then Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski.

She served as political director of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 1981 to 1985. She worked on the Bill Clinton 1996 presidential campaign and later served as director of communications and counselor to President Bill Clinton in the White House.

Lewis served as senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign for U.S. Senate. She served as director of communications for HillPAC and Friends of Hillary 2005 to 2007. She also served as national chair of the DNC Women's Vote Center, where she led the Democratic Party's major initiative to reach, engage, and mobilize women voters from 2003 to 2004.

Lewis was senior advisor for Hillary Clinton's 2008 – 2016 presidential campaign.

Lewis was co-chair for Jewish Women for Hillary 2016.

Following the conclusion of Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, Lewis founded NoLimits.org, an issue-based educational organization encouraging people to support the public policies championed by Clinton. She also served as president of the JAC Education Foundation. In 2001, Lewis was the Richman Visiting professor at Brandeis University.

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