Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice ... statement that she had faced down North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress. It was a largely substantive hearing ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem served in Congress during Trump’s first administration and sent the National Guard to the Texas-Mexico border.

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is ...