David Pekoske
Prior offices
Acting U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
David Pekoske was the acting secretary of homeland security in the Biden administration. He assumed office on January 20, 2021.[1] He left office on February 2, 2021, after Alejandro Mayorkas was confirmed to the position.
Biography
Pekoske earned a B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, MPA from Columbia University, and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served in the Coast Guard for more than three decades, including as the as 26th vice commandant of the service branch. He also worked as a commissioner on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.[2]
He became the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration in August 2017 for a five-year term.[2]
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Members confirmed by the Senate
- Tony Blinken, secretary of state
- Janet Yellen, secretary of the Treasury
- Lloyd Austin, secretary of defense
- Merrick Garland, attorney general
- Gina Raimondo, secretary of commerce
- Marty Walsh, secretary of labor
- Debra Haaland, secretary of the Interior
- Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture
- Xavier Becerra, secretary of health and human services
- Marcia Fudge, secretary of housing and urban development
- Miguel Cardona, secretary of education
- Pete Buttigieg, secretary of transportation
- Jennifer Granholm, secretary of energy
- Denis McDonough, secretary of veterans affairs
- Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security
- Katherine Tai, U.S. trade representative
- Avril Haines, director of national intelligence
- Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
- Cecilia Rouse, chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers
- Michael Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection AGency
- Isabel Guzman, administrator of the Small Business Administration
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