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United States Deputy Secretary Of Homeland Security
The deputy secretary of homeland security is the chief operating officer of the United States Department of Homeland Security, with responsibility for managing day-to-day operations. The department has over 208,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $48.5 billion. If the secretary of homeland security dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office, the deputy secretary is to serve as an acting secretary. The deputy secretary is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The position of Deputy Secretary was created along with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. The deputy secretary is paid $168,000 annually. List of deputy secretaries of homeland security Rand Beers served as acting deputy secretary in his capacity as Undersecretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs. Rafael Borras served as acting deputy secretary in his capa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Department Of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. United States federal executive departments, federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the Interior minister, interior, Home Secretary, home, or Ministry of Public Security, public security ministries in other countries. Its missions involve anti-terrorism, border security, civil defense, Immigration to the United States, immigration and customs, border security, border control, cyber security, cybersecurity, Airport security, transportation security, Maritime security (USCG), maritime security and Air-sea rescue, sea rescue, and the mitigation of Weapon of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction. It began operations on March 1, 2003, after being formed as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in response to the September 11 attacks. With more than 240,000 employees, DHS is the third-largest Cabinet of the United States, Cabinet department, after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Holl Lute
Jane Holl Lute (born 1956) is an American diplomat and security analyst who served as the UN special envoy on the Cyprus dispute. She served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, deputy secretary of homeland security from 2009 through 2013, after having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 3, 2009. Previously, Lute was the United Nations assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support. Before that, she was assistant secretary-general for mission support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, beginning in August 2003. She was the president and CEO of the Arlington-based Council on CyberSecurity and senior advisor to Measure, a drone-as-a-service company. On January 5, 2014, she was appointed special adviser for relocation of Camp Hurriya residents outside of Iraq by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. On February 8, 2016, she was appointed special coordinator on improving the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristie Canegallo
Kristie Canegallo (born 1979) is a former U.S. government official serving as the acting United States deputy secretary of homeland security (DHS) from July 2023 to January 2025. She joined DHS in January 2022 as its chief of staff. Canegallo was a White House deputy chief of staff for policy implementation from 2014 to 2017. Career Canegallo was born in 1979 and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts by a single mother who was a school teacher. She earned a B.A. from Colgate University in 2001. Following graduation, she worked for Goldman Sachs on Wall Street for three years. She completed a M.A. in strategic studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 2004. Canegallo is a member of the Democratic Party. Beginning in 2005, she took an unpaid internship with the United States Department of Defense. In 2007, she worked at the Embassy of the United States, Kabul for five months. The next year, she worked in Iraq for a United States Marine Corps unit o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tien
John Kai Tien Jr. (born 1963) is an American government official and retired United States Army officer who served as the United States deputy secretary of homeland security in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2023. Early life and education Tien was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1963, the son of John K. Tien Sr. and Deborah Theresa Wong. He is a first-generation Chinese American. He was raised near Detroit and Los Angeles and attended Grosse Pointe South High School before graduating from Cerritos High School in 1981. Tien began attendance at the United States Military Academy in 1981 but left and enrolled at the University of California, Irvine. He later transferred back to West Point in 1983, from which he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering in 1987. In his senior year, Tien served as the First Captain, the highest-ranked West Point cadet, and the first Asian-American to hold the position. Prior West Point First Captains include US Army Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president of the United States, vice president from 2009 to 2017 and represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and the 1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, U.S. Senate in 1972. US Senate career of Joe Biden, As a senator, Biden chaired the Senate United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Judiciary Committee and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations Committee. He drafted and led passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Cuccinelli
Kenneth Thomas "Coochâ Cuccinelli II ( ; born July 30, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he also served as the Principal Deputy and acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and was Attorney General of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. Cuccinelli previously served in the Senate of Virginia, Virginia Senate, representing the Virginia's 37th Senate district, 37th district in Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County from 2002 until 2010, and as the 46th Attorney General of Virginia, attorney general of Virginia from 2010 until 2014. Cuccinelli was the Republican Party of Virginia, Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in the Virginia gubernatorial election, 2013, 2013 Virginia gubernatorial election, losing to the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee, Terry McAuliffe. A self-descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pekoske
David Peter Pekoske (born May 5, 1955) is an American government official and retired United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral (United States), vice admiral who served as the seventh administrator of the Transportation Security Administration in the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2017 to 2025. He served as the acting United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, deputy secretary of homeland security from April to November 2019 and again from January to June 2021. From January 20, 2021 to February 2, 2021 he served as acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security, secretary of homeland security, during the United States Senate, Senate confirmation of Alejandro Mayorkas. Pekoske retired with 33 years of active military service in 2010 as the 26th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, vice commandant of the Coast Guard. Early life and education Pekoske was born in Meriden, Connecticut. He earned his Bachelor of Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Grady
Claire M. Grady is a former American government official who served in areas of national defense and security procurement. She served as the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management, as well as the acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from August 2017 until April 2019. Prior to assuming her the role, she served as director of defense procurement and acquisition policy at the United States Department of Defense. In her previous capacity in the U.S. Department of Defense, Grady was a member of the Defense Acquisition Board. In her role at the Department of Defense, Grady provided advice on matters related to the procurement of major weapon and automated information systems and led policy for services acquisition. She oversaw the department's contingency, domestic, and international contract policy in areas including competition, leasing, multiyear contracting, source selection, warranties, and e-business. She previously served as the United States Coast Guard's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Duke
Elaine Costanzo Duke (born June 26, 1958) is an American civil servant and former United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, serving from April 10, 2017 until April 15, 2018. She became acting Secretary of Homeland Security on July 31, 2017, when John F. Kelly assumed the office of White House Chief of Staff. She left the acting position on December 6, 2017, upon the confirmation of Kirstjen Nielsen. Early life and education The daughter of Francesco (Frank) Costanzo and Concetta Scherma, Duke is a native of Ohio. Her maternal grandparents emigrated from Aidone, Sicily and her paternal family roots can be traced to Coreno Ausonio in the Lazio region of Italy. She graduated with a B.S. in business management from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University) and an M.B.A. from Chaminade University of Honolulu. Career Duke held a consulting practice at Elaine Duke & Associates, LLC in Woodbridge, Virginia. Duke served as Under Secretary of Homel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it the Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He launched side ventures, many licensing the Trump name, and filed for six business bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice'', bolstering his fame as a billionaire. Presenting himself as a political outsider, Trump won the 2016 United States presidential e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Deyo
Russell C. Deyo is an American lawyer and government official. Appointed Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on May 11, 2015, he became the Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) on November 1, 2016. Early life and education Deyo graduated from Dartmouth College. He earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. At Georgetown, he was executive editor of the school's ''International Law Journal''. Career From 1977 to 1978, Deyo was an attorney at the New York City law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler. He was subsequently an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1978 to 1985. The last three years he was Chief of Special Prosecutions. Deyo worked at Johnson & Johnson for 27 years, with positions such as general counsel and vice president of administration. He oversaw human resources, procurement, contributions, philanthropy, legal affairs and compliance. He was also on the management boards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
