{"id":24229,"date":"2026-01-31T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:02:19","slug":"laura-dibella-designated-chairman-of-the-fmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=24229","title":{"rendered":"Laura DiBella designated Chairman of the FMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Laura DiBella designated Chairman of the FMC<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump has designated Laura DiBella to serve as Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman DiBella, who was sworn in as a Commissioner on January 6, was n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/trump-makes-two-fmc-commissioner-nominations\/\">ominated by President Trump on September 3, 2025 <\/a>and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 18, 2025, to serve a term that expires on June 30, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a true honor to simply be nominated as a Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission, and to now be tapped as Chairman is nothing short of a privilege,\u201d Chairman DiBella remarked. \u201cI am humbled and grateful for the faith that President Trump has demonstrated in me with this designation, and the gravity and responsibility of the role is not lost on me. I look forward to leading the incredible and hardworking FMC team in its integral function in carrying out President Trump\u2019s mandate of \u2018R<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-americas-maritime-dominance\/\">estoring America\u2019s Maritime Dominance<\/a>\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman serves as the chief executive and chief administrative officer of the FMC.<\/p>\n<p>In her career, DiBella, who was Florida\u2019s first female Secretary of Commerce, and president\/CEO at Enterprise Florida, has served as executive director of the Florida Harbor Pilots Association and as port director of the Port of Fernandina Ocean Highway and Port Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/laura-dibella-designated-chairman-of-the-fmc\/\">Laura DiBella designated Chairman of the FMC<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Marine Log Staff<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/laura-dibella-designated-chairman-of-the-fmc\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=laura-dibella-designated-chairman-of-the-fmc\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura DiBella designated Chairman of the FMC President Trump has designated Laura DiBella to serve as Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. Chairman DiBella, who was sworn in as a Commissioner on January 6, was nominated by President Trump on September 3, 2025 and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 18, 2025, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191,384,192,199],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-24229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-maritime-commission","category-fmc","category-marinelog","category-news","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}