Everything you need to know about Marie Yovanovitch and her testimony in the impeachment hearings

This appeared in The Millennial Source

On Friday, November 15, Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testified on the second day of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

Decades of diplomatic service

Marie Yovanovitch was the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine between August 2016 and May 2019. Barack Obama appointed her in this position and the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed her appointment. Former colleagues told CNN that she was the ideal choice to serve in Kiev. Before this, she served in Somalia, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. Yovanovitch has been a foreign service officer for 33 years and during her diplomatic career, she has represented six presidential administrations.

As ambassador, Yovanovitch sought to encourage Ukraine to tackle corruption. During her tenure, she tried to strengthen the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), an organization that seeks to bolster efforts to fight corruption in that nation.

In a March 2019 speech to the Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC), Yovanovitch decried the lack of progress made by the Ukrainian government in combating…