Hope Hicks is set to be named interim White House communications director

One of President Trump's youngest staffers has been hired to serve as the White House's interim communications director.

Hope Hicks, 28, who worked as Trump's press secretary during the campaign, will take over the position vacated by Anthony Scaramucci until a more permanent candidate can be found, the White House confirmed Wednesday.

While she will only be in the position temporarily, Hicks will nonetheless make history as the youngest person to act as White House communications director. The position was created under President Nixon in 1969.

Hicks' predecessor, Scaramucci, was fired after just 10 days in the position, after making derogatory statements about several members of the administration in an accidentally on-the-record interview with the New Yorker.

Despite her young age, Hicks is his longest-serving political aide.

Two years after graduating from college, Hicks was working for New York PR firm Hiltzik Strategies when it was hired to work on Ivanka Trump's fashion line.

Ivanka was so impressed with her work for her company that she offered her an in-house job at the Trump Organization in August 2014.

Just five months later, Mr Trump asked Hicks, who was just 26 years old at the time, to fill the role of press secretary for his upcoming campaign. Like her new boss, she had never worked a day in politics before that.

Hicks, left, is seen happily chatting with White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabuee Sanders, right, on Tuesday in Trump Tower. The president is spending this week at his New York City apartment while the White House undergoes renovations

While a larger PR team was brought in when Trump's run became more serious, Hicks stayed with him all that time - and is now his longest-serving aide.

That patience and loyalty paid off. When Trump won the election, he created a new role for her in the Oval Office, director of strategic communications.

As a teen, Hicks was signed to the top Ford modeling agency. She appeared as the face for the Gossip Girl spin-off book series The It Girl

In that position, Hicks reportedly makes the highest White house salary at $179,700 - equal to those of White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

In a February 2016 profile about Hicks in the New York Times, Mr Trump said he was 'lucky to have her'.

'She’s got very good judgment. She will often give advice, and she’ll do it in a very low-key manner, so it doesn’t necessarily come in the form of advice. But it’s delivered very nicely,' he said at the time.

When asked if he had any qualms about hiring a spokesman without a background in politics, Mr Trump said: 'Well, I have a lot of political experience, so I wasn’t really concerned about it.'

PR seems to sun in Hicks' blood. She was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on October 21, 1988 to communications executive Paul Burton Hicks III and his wife Cay Ann. Her grandfather also worked in public relations for Texaco.

As a young girl, Hicks got into modeling and became the face of the Hourglass Chronicles book series at the age of 10. And as a teen, she modeled for Ralph Lauren and appeared in Bloomingdale's catalogs as a Ford model. Gossip Girl fans will also recognize her as the cover model for the spin-off book series The It Girl.

Anthony Scaramucci, Hicks' predecessor, had only kind words about her appointment on Wednesday

She also dabbled in acting, and once read for a part with Alec Baldwin.

But her true passion was lacrosse, where she was co-captain of her team at Greenwich High School. Her talent won her a scholarship to Southern Methodist University, where she played for four years and majored in English.

After graduating in 2010, Hicks and her father ran into Baldwin at the Super Bowl, and the actor helped set her up with an interview at Hiltzik Strategies, which was doing his PR at the time.

That led to a job and her introduction to Ivanka Trump.

While politics doesn't seem like the most obvious career trajectory for Hicks, it's clearly something she has thought about for a long time.

Hicks had been serving as White House Director of Strategic Communications. She's pictured above stepping off Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey on June 30

In an interview with Greenwich Magazine about her modeling and acting career when she was just 13, Hicks hinted at possible political ambitions.

'If the acting thing doesn’t work out, I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?' she said.

Her mother also worked as a legislative aide to a Tennessee Democrat and her father was the chief of staff to a congressman from Connecticut.

Hicks enters the position of communications director at a particularly low time in President Trump's presidency. On Tuesday, he gave a press conference where he again said that 'many sides' were to blame for a deadly clash between neo-Nazis and protesters in Charlottesville. Mr Trump has been widely condemned for conflating Nazis and their critics, even among his own party.

After the disastrous press conference , several members of his own party came out against Trump including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Charlie Dent.

Even Trump's recently fired comms director Scaramucci said on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday that the president's first statement on the Charlottesville protests wasn't condemning enough of white supremacy.

Sean Spicer was the first to fill the role of communications director for Mr Trump, before Mike Dubke was brought on in March so Spicer could focus on being press secretary. Spicer took over again when Dubke left the position in June. Scaramucci was announced as the new comms director on July 21, but was swiftly fired when he gave a foul-mouthed interview for the New Yorker that was accidentally on the record.