Katharine MacGregor has been appointed as the Department of the Interior (DOI) deputy secretary.
The Senate voted 58-38 on Feb. 25 to confirm MacGregor.
She has been serving as the deputy chief of staff and exercising the authority of the deputy secretary since May 2019.
“Kate will be a tremendous leader and serve the American people admirably,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt.
“I am pleased that the Senate finally confirmed her.” MacGregor joined the Trump administration in 2017 and has worked on issues that include domestic energy and mineral development, combating missing and murdered American Indians and Alaskan Natives, enhancing rural broadband and other administration priorities.
