Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, is married to husband Lafayette Masteen Greenfield & they have 2 adult children.
Getty Nominated U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 24,2020. Linda Thomas-Greenfield is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The position is one that must be approved by the Senate. Thomas-Greenfield has the majority of her career as a civil servant in Foreign Service. She served as Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She was the ambassador to Liberia from 2008 to 2012. According to a State Department bio, she also represented the United States in Switzerland, Pakistan, Kenya, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Jamaica during her career. The commitment to public service appears to run in the family. Thomas-Greenfield met her husband, Lafayette Masteen Greenfield, while studying overseas. Their daughter became a Foreign Service Officer and their son has also spent time working for a U.S. agency overseas. Here’s what you need to know about Thomas-Greenfield’s husband and kids: Getty Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks at the US-Africa Leader Summit in Washington, DC, August 4,2014, while she was the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Thomas-Greenfield’s husband, Lafayette Greenfield, was also dedicated to civil service. They both spent their careers working for the State Department as Foreign Service Officers. Thomas-Greenfield publicly recognized her husband before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 2008 when she was nominated to be the ambassador to Liberia. In her opening statement, she thanked Greenfield for encouraging her to pursue a career with the State Department and for supporting her along the way. She mentioned that Greenfield had retired by that point. Thomas-Greenfield explained that she had lived in Liberia before. She studied abroad in Liberia for more than a year while she was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. According to their son, she met her now-husband during this study abroad program. Lafayette Greenfield II wrote an online blog while he was a college student.
