# Who is the woman at the right hand side of this photo?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474 "2017-08-23T17:18:24Z")
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### Author: ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474/1 "2017-08-23T17:18:24Z")

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Not an American, so apologies if the question has an obvious answer. She is frequently in photos with McConnell. [Photo here.](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-trump.html)

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### Author: ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474/2 "2017-08-23T17:25:07Z")

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Do you have a better picture? A side profile makes it hard to tell.

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### Author: ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474/3 "2017-08-23T17:28:11Z")

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> [@D18](#):
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> Not an American, so apologies if the question has an obvious answer. She is frequently in photos with McConnell. [Photo here.](https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-trump.html)

I’m not great at recognizing people from photos, but I think that’s Stephanie Penn, McConnell’s press secretary.

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### Author: ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474/4 "2017-08-23T17:42:57Z")

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> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> I’m not great at recognizing people from photos, but I think that’s Stephanie Penn, McConnell’s press secretary.

Could be. A Google Image search on Stephanie Penn gave this:

[![](http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/edcf8c9d825e9466aa3e0d14de4cceae) ](http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/edcf8c9d825e9466aa3e0d14de4cceae)

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### Author: ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474/5 "2017-08-23T17:57:23Z")

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Moving from Great Debates to General Questions.

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### Author: ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-at-the-right-hand-side-of-this-photo/794474/6 "2017-08-23T19:11:22Z")

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Yes, I’m pretty sure it is indeed Stephanie Penn.

**Bones** , came this close to posting the question in GQ. Sorry to cause you the work to move it.