WASHINGTON — President Biden said on Wednesday that he would nominate two high-profile women who were early supporters of his candidacy, the former ambassador Caroline Kennedy and the decorated figure skater Michelle Kwan, to ambassadorships in his administration.
The president tapped Ms. Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy and the ambassador to Japan under President Barack Obama, to be ambassador to Australia. He said he would nominate Ms. Kwan, who earned Olympic silver and bronze medals as a skater before pursuing a career in diplomacy and politics, to be ambassador to Belize.
Ms. Kennedy, 64, endorsed Mr. Biden for president in February 2020, in the heat of the Democratic primaries. She wrote in a Boston Globe opinion piece that Mr. Biden was “a president who can bring people together, who knows how to get things done at home and abroad, whose word we can count on, and who can nurture the next generation of leaders.”
In a news release announcing her nomination, White House officials praised Ms. Kennedy’s tenure as the first female ambassador in Japan from 2013 to 2017.