Nicolle Wallace

Nicolle Devenish: Hometown—Orinda, Calif. served as Communications Director for Bush-Cheney '04. Prior to joining the campaign, Devenish was Special Assistant to the President and Director of Media Affairs at the White House where she oversaw regional press strategy and outreach. Before joining the Bush Administration, Devenish was Florida Governor Jeb Bush's Press Secretary and later Communications Director for the Florida State Technology Office (some evidence of that Governor Bush Appoints Robert A. Rosenberg To The 17th Judicial Circuit). Devenish also served California's Assembly Republican Caucus from 1997 to 1998 and worked for the California Republican Party in 1998 (a Former Sacramento press agent fired by the state Assembly Republican caucus for getting too cozy with reporters. "I was seen talking and laughing and looking too trusting of the California press corps," said Ms. Devenish, who at the time, 1998, was a spokeswoman for the Republican caucus of the California State Assembly. She was dismissed by a staff member for an assemblyman - she won't say who - and responded by crying for an hour and a half in the car of a friend, Dan Schnur, a Republican political strategist who has worked on four presidential campaigns. Nicolle, 32, told Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times. SOURCE: SacBee). She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkley and her master's degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.