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Introduction
According to Apumone.com biography records, Gina Raimondo is an American politician, lawyer, and venture capitalist who has served as the 40th United States Secretary of Commerce since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 75th governor of Rhode Island from 2015 to 2021 and is the first woman to serve in the role.
Raimondo began her career in venture capital following law school. In 2000, Raimondo co-founded Point Judith Capital, Rhode Island’s first venture capital firm. She entered politics in 2010 when she successfully ran for the position of general treasurer of Rhode Island. During her first year in office, Raimondo prioritized reforming Rhode Island’s public employee pension system.
In 2014, Raimondo was elected governor in a three-way contest with 41% of the vote. While in office, Raimondo was elected to serve as vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) for the 2018 election cycle. Reelected in 2018, Raimondo was tasked with overseeing the state’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the 2020 presidential election, Raimondo served as co-chair of Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Described as a “moderate technocrat” by The Washington Post, Raimondo is often characterized as a centrist within her party. Chosen to serve as Secretary of Commerce by President Joe Biden, Raimondo played a leading role in negotiations for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021.
Early life
| Name | Gina Raimondo |
| Net Worth | $5 million |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Age | 51 years |
| Height | 1.68m |
Gina Marie Raimondo was born on May 17, 1971 (age 51 years) in Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States. She later grew up. Of Italian descent, she is the youngest of Josephine (Piro) and Joseph Raimondo’s three children. Her father, Joseph (1926–2014), made his career at the Bulova watch factory in Providence, Rhode Island. He became unemployed at 56 when the Bulova company decamped operations to China, shuttering the factory in Providence. Raimondo was a childhood friend of U.S. Senator Jack Reed.
Raimondo graduated from LaSalle Academy in Providence. She was one of the first girls allowed to attend the Catholic school, where she graduated as valedictorian. She went on to Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. While at Harvard, Raimondo resided in Quincy House and served on the staff of The Harvard Crimson. Raimondo played rugby at the Radcliffe Rugby Club, and joked that this experience “was good training for a career in politics”.
She attended New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received a Bachelor of Arts (later promoted to Master of Arts by seniority) and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2002 in sociology. Her thesis was on single motherhood and was supervised by Stephen Nickell and Anne H. Gauthier while she was a postgraduate student of New College, Ox ford. Raimondo received her Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1998. Raimondo has stated that her experience working at housing and poverty clinics inspired her to attend law school.
Career
Gina Raimondo served as a law clerk to federal judge Kimba Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York following her graduation from law school. Later, Raimondo acted as senior vice president for fund development at the Manhattan offices of Village Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and backed by Bain Capital and Highland Capital Groups.
Raimondo returned to Rhode Island in 2000 to co-found the state’s first venture capital firm, Point Judith Capital. Point Judith subsequently relocated its offices to Boston, Massachusetts. At Point Judith, Raimondo served as a general partner covering healthcare investments; she retains some executive duties with the firm. Under Raimondo’s leadership, Point Judith grew to over $100 million in assets and reportedly helped grow over twenty businesses.
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In 2010, incumbent general treasurer Frank T. Caprio chose to run for governor rather than seek a second consecutive term in office. Describing the position of general treasurer as “a professional job, not a political job”, Raimondo announced her candidacy for the position, her first campaign for elected office. In April 2010, former Democratic primary opponent Tom Sgouros dropped out of the race and endorsed Raimondo, leaving her as the only Democratic candidate.
Running a candidacy that emphasized her business credentials, Raimondo pledged to “use the power as the chief investment officer to lean on banks to invest again”. Raimondo’s platform called for financial empowerment programs at senior centers and schools, and for protecting consumers from predatory lending and mortgages.
On November 2, 2010, Raimondo was elected general treasurer, defeating Republican nominee Kernan F. King by a margin of 62% to 38%. During her first year as general treasurer, she prioritized reforming Rhode Island’s public employee pension system, which was 48% funded in 2010. In April 2011, Raimondo led the state retirement board to reduce the state’s assumed rate of return on pension investments from 8.25 percent to 7.5 percent.
In May 2011, Gina Raimondo released “Truth in Numbers”, a report that advocated for benefit cuts as the solution to Rhode Island’s pension problems, and she helped lead the effort to cut pensions, along with then-Speaker of the House Gordon Fox. The Rhode Island Retirement Security Act (RIRSA) was enacted by the General Assembly on November 17, 2012, with bipartisan support in both chambers. The next day, then-Governor Lincoln Chafee signed RIRSA into law. The legality of RIRSA was challenged in court by the public employee unions, but a settlement was reached in June 2015.
Under Raimondo’s tenure, the pension fund was criticized for underperforming when compared with its peers. Raimondo’s critics attributed the underperformance to a sharp increase in fees paid to hedge fund managers while her supporters argued investments in hedge funds stabilize investments during market downturns for more consistent returns over time.
Gina Raimondo created the Ocean State Investment Pool (OSIP), designed as a low-cost investment vehicle intended to help the state and municipalities better manage and improve the investment performance of their liquid assets, which are used for day-to-day operations including payroll and operating expenses. $500 million in funds could be eligible for the program, which would enable Treasury “to extend its expertise to municipalities and improve investment returns by creating economies of scale”. The program officially launched on April 23, 2012.
As of November 2021, the OSIP program is currently managed by Fidelity Investments. During the Rhode Island General Assembly’s 2012 session, Raimondo advocated for a decrease in the maximum allowable interest rate on payday loans in Rhode Island. She hosted a roundtable discussion with then-Providence mayor Angel Taveras and members of the Rhode Island Payday Reform Coalition.
Gina Raimondo submitted letters to the Senate and House Corporations Committees in support of payday reform legislation. She wrote “Far too many families are facing financial challenges that might be mitigated or avoided through a greater understanding of personal finance,” and “payday loans exploit that lack of understanding … With numerous economic challenges, Rhode Island should not permit the sale of a financial product that traps so many customers in a cycle of debt.” Raimondo wrote an op-ed in the edition of May 29, 2012, of The Providence Journal in support of payday lending reform.
Governor of Rhode Island (2015–2021)
Gina Raimondo ran for governor of Rhode Island in 2014 and won a contested Democratic primary against Providence mayor Angel Taveras and former Department of Education official Clay Pell. On November 4, 2014, Raimondo won the general election with 41% of the vote in a three-way race versus Republican Allan Fung and Moderate Party nominee Robert J. Healey.
Raimondo was elected to serve as the vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) for the 2018 election cycle. She was subsequently elected as chair of the DGA in 2019. In 2018, Raimondo ran for reelection, defeating former Secretary of state Matt Brown in the Democratic primary and Republican nominee Fung in the general election. Raimondo’s reelection made her the first candidate to secure a majority of votes for that office since 2006.
She was the first female governor of Rhode Island and was one of nine incumbent female governors in the United States at time of her resignation. During her tenure, Raimondo was credited with cutting taxes every year and removing eight thousand pages of regulations – thirty percent of the state’s regulations. She raised the state minimum wage to $11.50, created a sick-leave entitlement, financed the largest infrastructure program in the state’s history, and made community colleges tuition-free.
Raimondo appointed more judges of color than any of her predecessors, including Melissa A. Long, the first Black woman to serve on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. As Governor, Raimondo presided over Rhode Island’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 28, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened Raimondo with a lawsuit over a new state quarantine policy, which would make sure people from New York, which had been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, would self-quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in Rhode Island.
On March 29, Raimondo repealed the order that specifically referred to New Yorkers, and broadened it to include any out-of-state traveler entering Rhode Island with the intent to stay. Partnering with CVS, the nation’s largest pharmacy chain, her state has achieved one of the nation’s highest per capita levels of testing for COVID-19. Between assuming office and the end of 2019, Raimondo consistently ranked towards the bottom of approval ratings for all governors in the United States.
Raimondo’s approvals saw a significant rise during the COVID-19 pandemic. State-by-state polling by Microsoft News in April 2020 found that 76% of Rhode Islanders said they approved of the work done by Raimondo and her administration “to keep people safe” during the ongoing crisis. This result meant that Raimondo was tied with the governors of North Dakota and Utah for the 12th-highest rating.
In December 2016, the federal government gave the state Department of Human Services less than a month to fix the UHIP computer system or risk losing $13 million in federal funding. Federal officials judged that the state was not compliant in lowering a significant case backlog, starting a sufficient call-center, adequate staff training, and improving wait times at Health and Human Services field offices.
In February 2017, Executive Secretary of Health and Human Services Elizabeth H. Roberts resigned from her cabinet post in the Raimondo Administration due to the failed roll-out of the UHIP. In March 2017, Rhode Island Monthly reported that the U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into UHIP, specifically false claims and statements made about the Health and Human Services computer network rollout. The investigation was still underway as of the summer of 2017.
In an interview, House Oversight Chair Patricia Serpa (D-West Warwick) said, “There’s plenty of blame to go around. The auditor’s report found that [the contract with Deloitte] was poorly written, poorly overseen and poorly executed. They were warned against the implementation because the system was not ready. Not only did they implement it, they displaced all of the most senior workers with the wealth of experience. We pulled all the plugs to make sure this was a failure.”
Under Raimondo, the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) had come under fire for the rate of deaths and near-deaths of children in its care. In a period between January 2016 and December 2017, there were 31 fatalities or near fatalities of children in its care, with eight being confirmed fatal. Raimondo appointed Trista Piccola as her new DCYF director in January 2017. Piccola’s term was marked by the death and near-deaths of children, high staff turnover, votes of no confidence, and high budget deficits. Rep. Patricia Serpa and Rep. Charlene Lima called for Piccola’s resignation, which finally occurred in July 2019.
In October 2018, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families ordered the Raimondo Administration DCYF to improve in 33 of 36 areas assessed. The federal report noted that DCYF services were “inadequate, not developed when needed, or lacked consistent monitoring”. Harvard Kennedy School professor and former Obama Administration official Jeffrey Liebman agreed with the recommendations and analysis of the report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and claimed that the DCYF is “the most messed-up agency ever”.
With Piccola’s departure, the interim director is DCYF executive legal counsel Kevin Aucoin. Aucoin has served in an interim director capacity twice before when DCYF was without a permanent director. Secretary of the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services and Raimondo cabinet member Womazetta Jones said in December 2019 that she was “very determined to stay the course of not hiring anybody unless it’s the right person”. As of December 2020, DCYF does not have a permanent director.
During Raimondo’s tenure as governor, the DCYF) has focused on shifting children from congregate settings to licensed foster homes. DCYF has increased its capacity and utilization of licensed foster homes, including an increase in the number of licensed kinship families, from 280 in October 2019 to 576 in June 2020. As of December 2020, 83% of all children placed in out-of-home care are placed in a foster home. Since 2015, the department’s intensive reforms have resulted in a 43% reduction in the number of youth placed in congregate care and a 39% reduction in the number of youth placed in out-of-state congregate care. At the same time, the department has increased the number of children placed in licensed foster family homes.
In early February 2020, Raimondo appeared alongside former Republican New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg at the Wexford Innovation Center in Providence to endorse his candidacy, a move she described as “an easy call”. Raimondo was named a national co-chair for the Bloomberg campaign. In May 2020, writer George Will wrote in favor of Raimondo being chosen as Biden’s running mate in the 2020 election. However, Senator from California Kamala Harris was chosen as Biden’s running mate instead.
Secretary of Commerce (2021–present)
Following the 2020 United States presidential election, Raimondo was routinely mentioned as a possible cabinet secretary in the incoming Biden Administration. Though first seen as a likely Secretary of Health and Human Services, Raimondo announced on December 3, 2020, that she would not be taking that role. She was also considered for Secretary of the Treasury.
On January 7, 2021, Biden announced he would nominate Raimondo to serve as his Secretary of Commerce. She appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on January 26. On March 1, the Senate voted 84–15 in favor of cloture on the nomination and confirmed Raimondo to the position the following day by a vote of 84–15.
Gina Raimondo was duly sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris on March 3, 2021. In August 2021, Politico reported that Raimondo has become one of the “administration’s secret weapons on the Hill” due to her role in negotiating the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Raimondo was the only Cabinet member not to attend Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address on March 1, 2022, since she was chosen as the designated survivor.
In April 2022, Raimondo contracted COVID-19 during the Gridiron Club and Foundation Dinner. During Raimondo’s tenure, the Department of Commerce sanctioned NSO Group for selling spyware technology. As Secretary of Commerce, Raimondo has worked with other administration officials, such as Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, on coordinating cybersecurity policy. In March 2021, Raimondo issued subpoenas for multiple China-based telecommunications firms owing to concerns, arguing that “unrestricted use of untrusted ICTS poses a national security risk”. As Secretary of Commerce, Raimondo has been a co-chair of the Trade and Technology Council since its creation in 2021.
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Raimondo is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an Aspen Institute Rodel fellow. She was awarded an honorary degree from Bryant University, in 2012; and has received awards from the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce and the YWCA of Northern Rhode Island. Raimondo was elected alumni fellow at Yale, in 2014. Raimondo serves as vice chair of the board of directors of Crossroads Rhode Island, the state’s largest homeless services organization. Until 2011, she was an administrator of Women and Infants Hospital and chair of its Quality Committee. She has served on the boards of La Salle Academy and Family Service of Rhode Island.
Husband
Gina Raimondo is married to her husband Andrew Kind Moffit, they had their wedding on December 1, 2001, in Providence. Gina and her husband Andrew have two children, Cecilia and Thompson Raimondo Moffit. The family resides on the east side of Providence. Raimondo is a practicing Roman Catholic and was one of the first girls to graduate from the La Salle Academy, a Catholic school in Providence. As of April 2023, Gina Raimondo and her husband Andrew Moffit are still married.
Gina Raimondo net worth
How much is Gina Raimondo worth? Gina Raimondo net worth is estimated at around $5 million according to the Apumone.com database. Her main source of income is from her primary work as a politician. Gina Raimondo’s salary per month and other career earnings are over $400,000 dollars annually. Her remarkable achievements have earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and most influential politicians in the United States. Gina Raimondo stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality.
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