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Schlesinger is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. [4] Hazel O'Leary, Bill Clinton's first secretary of energy, was the first female and first African American to hold the position. [5] The first Hispanic to serve as Energy Secretary was Clinton's second energy secretary, Federico Peña. [6]
[11] [3] [12] O'Leary was the first woman and first African American to serve as energy secretary. [13] [14] She was also the first secretary of that department to have worked for an energy company. [15] At the time she led the Department of Energy, it had an annual budget of $18 billion [16] and approximately 18,000 employees. [7]
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician. Since 2021, she has served as the 16th United States Secretary of Energy.A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Attorney General of Michigan from 1999 to 2003 and as the 47th Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011, as the first woman to hold each office.
Schlesinger while serving as Energy Secretary Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger with President Jimmy Carter at The Oval Office on March 23, 1977. After leaving the Pentagon, Schlesinger wrote and spoke forcefully about national security issues, especially the Soviet threat and the need for the United States to maintain adequate defenses.
On February 4, 2019, President Trump announced his intention to nominate Interior Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary Bernhardt to be the next United States Secretary of the Interior. On April 11, 2019, Bernhardt was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 56–41. He served until the end of the Trump administration, on January 20, 2021.
Secretary of Energy: Grace Bochenek: January 20, 2017 March 2, 2017 Rick Perry: March 2, 2017 December 1, 2019 On October 17, 2019, Perry announced that he intended to resign at the end of the year. [24] Deputy Secretary of Energy: Dan Brouillette: August 7, 2017 December 4, 2019 Became Secretary of Energy. Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.
Christopher Allen Wright [1] (born June 25, 1965) is an American engineer and businessman who is the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America's second largest hydraulic fracturing company. He is the presumptive nominee for United States secretary of energy under Donald Trump's second presidency.