On Monday, January 18
th, the incoming Biden Administration announced that it was appointing Wisconsin DHS Secretary-Designee Andrea Palm to be the Deputy Secretary of HHS. It’s hard to imagine she will be missed much in Wisconsin.
There was really only one reason why Gov. Evers picked Andrea Palm to be his Department of Health Services Secretary. Palm had no personal connection to Wisconsin. She was not a doctor. She had no formal education in public health. She had no track record of leading a major government agency. None of that mattered. She was politically connected. Not surprisingly, she proved entirely incapable of leading DHS, especially during a major public health crisis.