Avril Haines

Avril Haines was born in New York City on August 27, 1969, to Adrian Rappin and Thomas H. Haines. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Haines’ mother, a painter, was Jewish. When Haines was 10, her mother developed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and contracted avian tuberculosis; Haines and her father nursed Adrian in a home ICU until her death when Haines was 15 years old. Her father, Thomas H. Haines, is a biochemist who graduated with a PhD from Rutgers University and helped in the formation of the CUNY School of Medicine, where he served as the chair of the biochemistry department.
After graduating from Hunter College High School, Haines moved to Japan for a year, where she enrolled at the Kodokan, an elite judo institute in Tokyo. In 1988, Haines enrolled in the University of Chicago where she studied physics. While attending the University of Chicago, Haines worked repairing car engines at a mechanic shop in Hyde Park. In 1991 Haines took up flying lessons in New Jersey, where she met her future husband, David Davighi. She later graduated with her B.A. in physics in 1992.
In 1992, Haines moved to Baltimore, and enrolled as a doctoral student at Johns Hopkins University. However, later that year, Haines dropped out and with her future husband purchased a bar in Fell’s Point, Baltimore, which had been seized in a drug raid; they turned the location into an independent bookstore and café. She named the store Adrian’s Book Cafe, after her late mother; Adrian’s realistic oil paintings filled the store. The bookstore won City Paper’s “Best Independent Bookstore” in 1997 and was known for having an unusual collection of literary offerings, local writers, and small press publications. Adrian’s hosted a number of literary readings, including erotica readings, which became a media focus when she was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the Deputy Director of the CIA. She served as the president of the Fell’s Point Business Association until 1998.
In 1998, she enrolled at the Georgetown University Law Center, receiving her J.D. in 2001.
On November 23, 2020, Joe Biden, then the president-elect, announced his nomination of Haines for the position of Director of National Intelligence; she became the first woman to hold the position.

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  1. shinichi Post author

    Avril Haines

    Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Haines

    Avril Danica Haines (born August 27, 1969) is an American lawyer and senior government official who currently serves as the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Haines previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Obama administration; the first woman to hold either position. Prior to her appointment to the CIA, she served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Office of White House Counsel.
     

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  2. shinichi Post author

    From Baltimore book seller to CIA

    by Dave Rosenthal

    Baltimore Sun

    https://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-avril-d-haines-goes-from-baltimore-bookstore-to-cia-20130613-story.html

    The life of an independent bookstore owner is perilous these days. Having to fend off deadly competition from giant Barnes & Noble, online merchants such as Amazon, and big box stores including Target and Walmart.

    Still, even with that cut-throat atmosphere, you wouldn’t imagine that an indie owner could end up near the top of the Central Intelligence Agency.

    Until Avril D. Haines came along.

    Haines, the former co-owner of Adrian’s Book Cafe in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood, has been named CIA deputy director, the number two position in the spy agency, The Baltimore Sun’s John Fritze notes.

    I’d love to hear a conversation between her and another Baltimore who makes his living from spies: author Tom Clancy.

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  3. shinichi Post author

    (sk)

    大学をドロップアウトして彼と一緒にコーヒーが飲める本屋をやっていたおねえちゃんが、何年も経って国家情報長官になってしまうアメリカという国。いいなあとしか言いようがない。

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