Ex-Dodgers owner Jamie McCourt up for ambassadorship to France after switch from Belgium
Former Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner and CEO Jamie McCourt received a new ambassador assignment as President Trump nominated her this week to serve as ambassador to France and Monaco.
McCourt, one of Trump’s top fundraisers during his presidential campaign, was originally nominated in June to become the ambassador to Belgium. (McCourt speaks French, one of the official languages of Belgium.) The White House, however, revealed her new assignment in a list sent to this week to the Senate, which will need to confirm McCourt before she takes her new post.
For more than a decade, the U.S. ambassador to France has also served as Monaco’s ambassador.
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As the Dodgers are in the midst of one of their greatest regular seasons in franchise history, the name “McCourt” dredges up memories of arguably the lowest point the club has endured since its move from Brooklyn.
McCourt, who had served as the CEO of the Dodgers, was fired by her then-husband, Frank McCourt, in October 2009. It was the first major salvo in a messy divorce that included a trial in 2010 to decide ownership rights to the team.
Major League Baseball seized control of the Dodgers in 2011 after the team struggled to meet payroll obligations, and the franchise was eventually sold for $2 billion.
Jamie McCourt holds a law degree from the University of Maryland and an MBA from MIT. She has spent much of the last decade as a real estate developer and an adjunct professor at UCLA.