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By Lisa Whitley Coleman
Mar 9, 2021
Energy
The Senate confirmed former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as the Energy Secretary for the Biden administration on February 25, 2021, by a 64–35 vote.
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Granholm was the first woman elected as a governor in Michigan in 2002 and served two terms in that capacity. Before that position, she was the first woman elected as Michigan’s attorney general in 1998.
Granholm is credited with diversifying Michigan’s economy, strengthening its automotive and manufacturing industries, and adding emerging clean energy sectors after the decline the state saw in its economy during the Great Recession.