Andrea Saul

Who is Andrea Saul?

Andrea Saul has worked on a number of political campaigns, and was the campaign press secretary for the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign.

She joined the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign in February 2007 for a few months until it ran low on funding, then moved to the Republican National Committee, and later rejoined the McCain campaign as its media affairs' director by April 2008. She subsequently worked for Senator Orrin Hatch, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, and Carly Fiorina. She first met Mitt Romney during the McCain campaign.

Saul was raised in Dalton, Georgia, graduated from Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga in 2000, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2004, majoring in communication studies and Spanish. After graduation, she worked for NBC in Athens during the 2004 Olympics games, and then moved to Washington, D.C., where she took a job with DCI Group, a public relations firm. Saul's father, Julian Saul, is a former president of Shaw Industries, a carpet manufacturer.