Emma King Doyle

A Butler County native spent the last month settling into her new desk at the White House.

Emma King Doyle, 30, is Principal Deputy Chief of Staff to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House Chief of Staff. In layman’s terms, she’s the right-hand woman to President Donald Trump’s right-hand man.

Doyle switched to the Chief of Staff’s office on Dec. 27, shortly after Mulvaney was named to the position. She had spent the last two years working as Mulvaney’s chief of staff at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

“It’s surreal,” Doyle said. “And such an honor.”

Doyle attended school in the Mars School District through 9th grade, after which she transferred to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. She earned both her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Georgetown University. She worked for U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey as a legislative aid before joining Mulvaney’s staff in the House of Representatives, and she worked as a lobbyist for Ford Motor Company before joining the OMB.

But today, Doyle’s office is in the West Wing.

“It’s a place with an amazing sense of history,” Doyle said. “It’d be difficult to work here and not feel that sense of continuity to the people that have come before you and the responsibility you have to the American people when you’re in a job like this.”

She thinks her upbringing in Western Pennsylvania — “Trump Country,” she called it — is an asset at the Capitol.

Read more about Emma King Doyle in Wednesday’s Butler Eagle.