Soderberg, Henry Kissinger, and other experts. One source called her "Bloomberg's Condi" and spurred rumors that he was contemplating a 2008 presidential campaign. In 2011, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown appointed Soderberg to the Jacksonville International Business Coalition, and in 2013, he appointed her to the Board of the Jacksonville Port Authority. After Lenny Curry defeated Alvin Brown in the 2015 mayoral election, the new mayor requested she resign, which she did "with deep regret" with two years remaining on her four-year term. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB), an advisory committee established by the U.S. Congress to promote public access to U.S. national security decisions. In 2012 PIDB published a report calling for an overhaul of the U.S. government classification system. Soderberg wrote that the system was "outdated and incapable of dealing adequately with the large volumes of classified information generated in an era of digital communications and information systems". She was formerly on the Board of Advisors to the President of the Naval Postgraduate School and Naval War College. She is Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Florida politics Soderberg was a candidate for Florida Senate District 4 in the 2012 elections. She ran against Aaron Bean, former Florida State House Representative, in the newly open district. She ultimately lost but outperformed traditional voting patterns by 6 points. On July 12, 2017, Soderberg filed to run for Congress as a Democrat in the 2018 midterm elections in Florida's 6th Congressional District. The then-current incumbent Ron DeSantis officially announced his candidacy for Governor on January 5, 2018. On August 28, 2018, Soderberg won the Democratic primary, defeating two challengers with 55.6% of the vote, but in the November 6, 2018, general election she was defeated by Republican Michael Waltz 56% to 43%. Personal life Soderberg was visiting London at the time of the 2017 London Bridge attack. She then traveled on to Paris with her 16-year-old niece. There, the two were locked down inside the cathedral during the 2017 Notre Dame attack. Media Soderberg publishes and speaks regularly on national security policy. Her second book, The Prosperity Agenda What the World Wants from America—and What We Need in Return, written with Brian Katulis, was published in July 2008. It argues for American leadership in tackling the world’s challenges in