By Alexandra Ulmer and Steve Holland (Reuters) -When Donald Trump took the stage in West Palm Beach, Florida, to claim victory in last week's presidential election, he called his campaign manager Susie Wiles out from behind a row of his relatives to thank her.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that Susie Wiles, who managed his reelection campaign, would become his chief of staff. It makes Wiles the first woman to hold the role, the most senior political appointee in the White House with significant power and influence.

Susie Wiles is set to take on one of the most important — and arguably unforgiving — jobs in Washington as President-elect Trump’s chief of staff. Those who know Wiles and have worked with her during her years as a Republican operative in Florida and as one of the leaders of Trump’s 2024 campaign

The first female White House chief of staff is a longtime Florida operative and onetime aide to moderate Republicans who is “more about strategy than ideology.”

P resident-elect Donald Trump’s first key appointment since his victory this week came with a historic choice. He selected Susie Wiles to be his White House chief of staff, making her the first woman appointed to the position.

Wiles ran Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns in Florida, helping to put the Sunshine State in his victory column both times. She also helped to score improbable statewide victories for two other Florida Republicans — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and Gov. Ron DeSantis, though her relationship with DeSantis eventually soured.

One journalist who has studied her career sees a connection between her tempestuous childhood and her ability to function inside the chaos of Trump world.

The daughter of NFL player and sportscaster Pat Summerall, Wiles worked in the Washington office of New York Rep. Jack Kemp in the 1970s.

Susie Wiles will be Donald Trump's chief of staff when he returns to the White House, Trump announced last week. Naming Wiles to the position was in its own way histo