Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. She served as White House director of strategic communications from January to September 2017, as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018, and returned to serve as a counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021.
Hicks was a teenage model before following her father into a career in media and communications. After college and a couple of years' work in public relations, she became an employee of the Trump Organization. From there, she became press secretary and early communications director for the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, shifting to national press secretary for the presidential transition team before joining the Trump Administration.
When Hicks resigned from the Administration in March 2018, she was Trump's longest-serving political aide. After her resignation, she was Fox Corporation's chief communications officer and executive vice president. She returned to the White House as counselor to President Trump in March 2020 before departing for the final time on January 13, 2021.
