Elizabeth Fitzsimmons

Education

Fitzsimmons earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. She also holds a certificate from the International Division of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 1993.

Career

Fitzsimmons is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor. She has served overseas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, India and Bulgaria. She has also worked in the State Department's Operations Center and as Deputy Director of the State Department's Executive Secretariat. Other assignments included being deputy executive secretary to Secretaries John Kerry and Rex Tillerson, senior advisor at the Foreign Service Institute, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Public Diplomacy) in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to that, she was Acting Deputy Spokesperson for the Department. From January to September 2021, she served as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs. She presented her credentials to President Faure Gnassingbé on April 26, 2022.

Personal life

Elizabeth Anne Noseworthy married Trevor Morrison Fitzsimmons on November 27, 1999. Their marriage ended in divorce. In 2011 she married Diplomatic Security Special Agent Richard Seipert and the two have five children. Her father was the associate medical director and the chief of surgery at the Nemours Children's Clinic in Jacksonville. Her mother was the president of the Delaware Symphony from 1993 to 1995 and its chairwoman in 1995 and 1996.

Fitzsimmons speaks Bulgarian, French and Chinese. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.