Rachel Cartmill Bio, Wiki
Rachel Cartmill Vindman is the wife of Alexander Vindman a United States Army lieutenant colonel who serves as the Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC). Vindman came to national attention in October 2019 when he testified before the United States Congress regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal.
Rachel Cartmill Parents
Rachel Cartmill was born to parents, Janet Faline Cartmill and Mike Cartmill -both deceased. She has two brothers, J.J and Pat Cartmill. Rachel’s father served as Head Football Coach at Santa Fe South High School in Oklahoma City while her mother also worked at Santa Fe South High School in Oklahoma City. According to an obituary, Rachel’s mother died in 2013.
Rachel Cartmill & Alexander Vindman
Alexander Vindman’s wife is named Rachel Cartmill, now Rachel Vindman, according to the Kitman page and online Ancestry records. They married in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 18th, 2006.
Rachel is the daughter of a high school football coach from Oklahoma, according to her father’s obituary. An obituary for her mother described Rachel’s husband as “US Army Major Alex Vindman of Moscow, Russia,” at that time, in 2013. Rachel Vindman’s social media accounts are deleted, except for a Pinterest page, where she posts typical boards about crafts and the like.
Alex Vindman has an active Facebook page, but there’s nothing visible on it except the above profile picture, and he only has 80 friends.
Rachel Cartmill Children
Rachel Cartmill Vindman and her husband are the proud parents of one daughter, Eleanor Vindman.
Rachel Cartmill appears to have a low profile, judging by the demands of her husband’s career. An Instagram account associated with her is set to private.
Who is Alexander Vindman?
Vindman received a Purple Heart medal for wounds he received from an IED attack in the Iraq War in 2004 after being commissioned in 1999 as an infantry officer. He became a foreign area officer specializing in Eurasia in 2008 and assumed his current position as Director for European Affairs with the NSC in 2018.
He was born on June 6th, 1975 and has an identical twin brother Yevgeny both born to a Jewish family in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. After the death of their mother, the three-year-old twins and their older brother Leonid were brought to New York in December 1979 by their father, Semyon (Simon). They grew up in Brooklyn’s “Little Odessa” neighborhood. Vindman speaks fluent Russian and Ukrainian.
Back in September 2019 and Vindman’s husband, Alexander, detailed to the National Security Council. Late one Thursday night, he casually mentioned a report about a whistleblower who revealed President Trump had shaken down Ukraine’s president for dirt on Joe Biden during a White House phone call — and that Alexander was on the call.
Rachel Cartmill Ad
In Oct 2020, Rachel is speaking for the first time about her family’s ordeal, as she and her husband appear in a new television ad urging people to vote against Trump. The ad is a joint production of the anti-Trump Republican group, the Lincoln Project, and the progressive veterans group, Vote Vets. “The most powerful man in the world came after our family, what happened to us can happen to anyone,” she says in the ad, scheduled to hit the airwaves Friday.
She expects abuse to come after the ad airs but says she’s at peace with that. “I just refuse to be bullied,” she says. “I don’t look as young as I used to or as skinny as I used to and know putting my face out there and everything, people will make those comments.”
