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The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was created on October 1, 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act, establishing the department. [2]
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.
Below is a list of nominations and appointments to the Department of Energy by Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States.As of June 21, 2024, according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, 17 nominees have been confirmed, 0 nominees are being considered by the Senate, and 9 positions do not have nominees.
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician. From 2021 until 2025, she 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.
But the job of energy secretary — and a new “energy czar” post, a powerful White House position to coordinate the administration’s efforts to slash regulations and ramp up oil and gas ...
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
Gene Rodrigues is an American lawyer [1] who served as Assistant Secretary of Energy (Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability) in the United States Department of Energy. [2] Rodrigues was nominated by President Joe Biden on September 2, 2022 [3] and subsequently confirmed by voice vote of the U.S. Senate on December 21, 2022 [4].
The Deputy Secretary of Energy is a high-ranking position within the United States Department of Energy. The Deputy Secretary is the second-highest-ranking official of the Department and assists the secretary of energy in the supervision and direction of the Department. The Deputy Secretary succeeds the Secretary in their absence, sickness, or ...