Linda Moore (businesswoman)

Linda Moore
Linda Moore
Born	1961
Alma mater	University of Texas
Occupation(s)	CEO, TechNet
Political party	Democratic

Linda Moore is an American businesswoman and political strategist, currently serving as the CEO of tech policy advocacy organization TechNet. Previously, she was deputy political director in the Clinton White House, and served as field director of the Democratic Leadership Council.

Early life and education

Moore was born in Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984. During school she worked for the Lloyd Doggett 1984 campaign for the United States Senate.^[1]

Career

Early years and Clinton administration

After graduation, Moore moved to Washington, D.C. and continued working with political campaigns, joining the staff of Dick Gephardt's 1988 presidential bid.^[2] She later joined the Democratic Leadership Council, a center-left organization that promoted the ideals of the New Democrats and backed Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential election. She became the field director, turning it into the policy and political backbone of the Clinton campaign.^[3]

Moore served in the White House during both terms of the Clinton Administration. She initially served as a special assistant to the President, a styling given to tertiary staffers. During the second term, she became deputy assistant to the President, a second-level staff position, and also served in the second term as the deputy political director in the Office of Political Affairs. Moore took a leave in the fall of 1996 to serve as deputy political director for the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign.

Post-White House and TechNet

In 2001, following her tenure in the White House, Moore joined the staff of Indiana senator Evan Bayh, at the time a leading force for moderate and centrist democrats, serving as his senior advisor until 2011. Her influence in that capacity extended to both his political dealings in Congress and his chairmanship of the Democratic Leadership Council.^[3]

She was recruited by John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign to serve as political director for John Edwards, Kerry's running mate. In 2008, she was brought on to Hillary Clinton's campaign as a senior advisor and director of congressional affairs.^[1]

In the fall of 2011, Moore was named a resident fellow at Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP), where she led a weekly seminar on the decline of centrists and the increase of polarization in both parties and its impact on policy and politics. Moore then served on Harvard IOP's Fellows Alumni Advisory Council.^[3] In March 2012, Moore was appointed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).^[4]

In February 2014, Moore was named president and CEO of TechNet,^[5] a technology based advocacy group backing the interests of companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Apple. In May 2014, Moore was named to the board of the Women's High-Tech Coalition,^[6] a non-partisan organization of women technology executives. In 2015, she was included in FedScoop's list of Top 50 Women in Technology.^[7] In 2016, Wired listed her as one of a new class of tech insiders in the political elite with great influence in the 2016 presidential election.^[8]

Moore is an advocate of increasing women's access to and representation in STEM related fields, and has written that the acceptance and inclusion of computer science in secondary schooling curricula is integral in maintaining the United States' competitiveness, as well as ensuring that such curricula are open and available to women and other demographics that remain underrepresented in those fields.^[9]