Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A Fourth!

A fourth trans-person has been appointed by President Obama, it was announced that Shawn Skelly is being appointed today as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), she joins the three other presidential appointees, Amanda Simpson, Dylan Orr and Chloe Schwenke.
Shawn Skelly and the Future of the Federal Bureaucracy
Huffington Post
By Dana Beyer
Posted: 12/16/2013

Shawn Skelly is being appointed today as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). She served just over 20 years in the Navy and retired at the rank of Commander in 2008. By trade, she was a Naval Flight Officer (navigator/weapons systems officer vice a pilot) and flew the S-3B Viking in the fleet off the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and as a flight instructor. Her non-flying tours were on the staffs of Commander, U.S. Second Fleet/Striking Fleet Atlantic as Future Operations Officer, U.S. Pacific Command as Deputy Chief of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania Policy, with her final tour in uniform being at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, serving as the Director of the Marine Corps Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Working Group. Following retirement from active duty, she began working for Exelis Inc. (then known as ITT Advanced Information Systems) providing support to the Department of Defense's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) as well as doing some corporate business development work. She has a B.A. in history from the University of South Carolina, and an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
No other president in history has appointed so many trans-people to high level posts.

Chloe Schwenke was appointed Senior Advisor for LGBT Policy for USAID, Dylan Orr’s appointment was Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor and Amanda Simpson is the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology in the U.S. Department of Defense.

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