Nauert is married to Scott Norby, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. The couple is happily married and they have two sons, Peter, born in 2009, and Gage, born in 2010. A protective mother, Heather does not expose her children to the media. Nauert loves travelling which she does during holidays. She is an enthusiastic animal rights activist. Nauert is active on Twitter and constantly posts tweets of recent news updates.

Trivia

Heather was asked to name a thing she can't live without and her answer was, without a doubt, cheese. She thinks fancy cheese is nice, but her favorite is from Wisconsin. Heather loves to read biographies, particularly Katherine Graham's. She thinks that the book "The Endurance" about Sir Ernest Shackleton's journey across Antarctica is an incredible story of courage, true grit and leadership.

Heather's first car was a big, white Oldsmobile station wagon. She called it "The Mighty Wagon". She is a huge fan of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but her all-time favorite is "The Sound of Music," and she'll see just about any movie that stars Adam Sandler or John Candy. Heather owns a karaoke machine, she also own a crock pot, which gets used a lot in the winter thanks to her Midwestern roots.

Current

On April 24, 2017 The Department of State welcomed Heather Nauert as the new State Department Spokesperson. Heather Nauert was generally well received by her State Department colleagues, and widely viewed as a competent spokesperson who diligently educated herself on a large range of international issues. Bruce Wharton, a former ambassador and Foreign Service officer who overlapped with Nauert while serving as the acting under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, says of Nauert: “Switching from reading from a teleprompter to having to master an entire book of global events was a very tough thing to do, but I think she did it very well."

But the transition from news anchor to State Department Spokeswoman was not completely smooth.  Nauert made a remarkable slip when she cited the D-Day invasion as an example of America’s “very strong relationship with the government of Germany.” During the D-Day invasion on 6 June, 1944, around 156,000 British, American, Canadian and other Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to establish a foothold in Nazi-occupied France. Nauert was skewered on Twitter with one user saying  “Dear @StateDept: You have six months to educate Heather Nauert on the history and significance of Pearl Harbor before she cites it as an example of strong US-Japan relations. Get to it – you may need some time to catch her up.”

Nevertheless, On March 13, 2018, Heather Nauert was designated as Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. It was also announced that she would continue to serve as State Department Spokesperson thereby filling both roles. Nauert arrived in Washington without any foreign policy, government, or political experience, but she had something more important; an unwavering willingness to support and defend President Donald Trump.

On November 2, 2018, according to sources familiar with the matter, President Donald Trump told advisers that Heather Nauert is his leading choice to become US ambassador to the United Nations and that he could offer her the post as soon as this week. If named as Ambassador, Nauert would leave her role at the State Department to take over from former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who surprised White House officials last month when she announced her decision to step down at the end of the year. Trump said of Nauret "She's excellent. She's been with us a long time. She's been a supporter for a long time. And she's really excellent.”