The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is recruiting Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenDimon: Wealth tax 'almost impossible to do' CNN's Don Lemon: 'Blow up the entire system' remark taken out of context Democrats shoot down talk of expanding Supreme Court MORE’s (D-Mass.) former campaign manager to helm the party's efforts to retake Senate control in 2018.

Mindy Myers will be the first woman to serve as DSCC executive director. Myers oversaw the committee’s independent expenditures in the 2016 cycle.

“The Senate Democrats are the last line of defense between the incoming Trump Administration and the damaging policies that threaten the economic prospects of the middle class, the health security of seniors, and the march toward greater social justice,” said Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), incoming DSCC chairman, in a statement announcing the move Wednesday.

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“She has what it takes to build the strong team that can get the job done for our candidates and the American people,” he said of Myers.

Warren called Myers a "smart, tough, steady leader who knows how to fight & win."

"Our party is lucky to have her," she wrote on Twitter.

Myers served as campaign manager for Warren’s 2012 campaign against then-Sen. Scott Brown (R). Warren has emerged as a progressive stalwart and been floated as a possible presidential contender in 2020.

Myers has also managed the campaigns of Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse Sheldon WhitehouseFeinstein 'surprised and taken aback' by suggestion she's not up for Supreme Court fight Hillicon Valley: Murky TikTok deal raises questions about China's role | Twitter investigating automated image previews over apparent algorithmic bias | House approves bill making hacking federal voting systems a crime House approves legislation making hacking voting systems a federal crime MORE (D-R.I.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and also served as New Hampshire state director for Obama for America in 2008.

Senate Democrats only picked up two seats in 2016 despite a favorable electoral map. The 2018 cycle will be a tougher fight to protect 25 seats — two of which are held by Independents who caucus with Democrats.

Ten of the seats they're defending are in states carried by President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE in the November election.

Myers’s political experience is mainly in the Northeast, and Democrats will be defending seats in red states including Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota and Montana.

But Myers, who’s from South Dakota, noted that she grew up in an area that's primarily Republican.

“I really believe that the American people, and even independent voters in these red states agree with the Democratic principles on economic issues,” Myers told Roll Call in a March interview.