Nonprofit Leader Named Ambassador for Women’s Issues

President Obama has nominated a nonprofit leader to the new post of ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues — Melanne Verveer, co-founder of Vital Voices Global Partnership, in Washington.

The post is in the State Department, which means Ms. Verveer will be working with Hillary Clinton, now the secretary of state, a second time around.

Before co-founding Vital Voices, which helps train women leaders around the world, in 2000, Ms. Verveer was chief of staff for Ms. Clinton, then the first lady, as well as assistant to the president. She helped establish the President’s Interagency Council on Women, which was set up to help implement an action plan adopted at a 1995 United Nation conference on women.

Ms. Verveer has also served as executive vice president of People for the American Way, coordinator for civil rights and urban affairs at the U.S. Catholic Conference, and field manager at Common Cause.

“The president’s decision to nominate an ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues is unprecedented and reflects the elevated importance of global women’s issues to the president and his entire administration,” the White House said in a statement.