By Lauren C. Williams
Apr 14, 2021
The White House announced its plan to nominate Christine Wormuth, the Pentagon’s former top policy official, to be the first woman as Army secretary.
Wormuth led the Biden-Harris defense agency review and was previously under secretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration from 2014 to 2016. She’s now the director of the RAND Corporation’s International Security and Defense Policy Center.
Wormuth, who has also served as senior director for defense policy on the National Security Council, is the first cabinet nomination for the military services for the Biden administration. If confirmed, she would be the Army’s first female secretary.