President Donald Trump has tapped a veteran federal government administrator, Vince Micone, to be the acting secretary of Labor, and Dr. Dorothy Fink, a women’s health program leader, to be the acting Health and Human Services secretary.
Micone will run the U.S. Labor Department while Lori Chavez-DeRemer goes through the nomination review process, and Fink will run HHS while the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pending.
The White House announced the acting secretary picks Monday, when it marked the inauguration of President Donald Trump by rolling out dozens of announcements and executive orders.
A second announcement officially confirmed that Trump is nominating Chavez-DeRemer to be the Labor secretary and Kennedy to be the HHS secretary.
The cabinet secretary nominees: Chavez-DeRemer, the Labor Department nominee, is a former Republican representative from Oregon.
Kennedy, the HHS nominee, is a lawyer and health policy activist who is the son of the late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the new nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
The acting Labor Department secretary: Micone, the man who is now running the Labor Department and overseeing the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, is the deputy assistant secretary for operations in the Labor Department’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management, or OSAM.
He has been managing about 770 employees in the Labor Department’s national office and six regional offices.
He oversees many different kinds of operations, including human resources management and employee safety and health.
Before that, he ran a U.S. Commerce Department office that handled human resources operations for the Commerce Department. He was the co-chair of the federal government’s workplace charitable giving campaign from 2002 through 2008 and was re-elected to that post in 2013. While he has helped run the campaign, it has raised about $770 million for nonprofit organizations.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California.
The acting HHS secretary: Fink, the acting head of HHS, is the director of the HHS Office on Women’s Health.
Fink is an endocrinologist who has conducted research on topics such as polycystic ovary syndrome and the effects of diabetes on women’s bones.
he has a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a medical degree from Georgetown. She completed a residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a residency in endocrinology at Columbia University.
One of her priorities at HHS has been finding ways to reduce the U.S. maternal mortality rate.