By Terri Moon Cronk
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2014 – President Barack Obama has
announced his intent to nominate four people to key Defense Department
positions, all of which require Senate confirmation.
They are:
-- Miranda A. A. Ballentine, to be assistant secretary of
the Air Force for installations, environment, and logistics;
-- Michael McCord, to be undersecretary of Defense
(comptroller);
-- Brian P. McKeon, to be principal deputy undersecretary of
Defense for policy, and
-- Christine E. Wormuth, to be undersecretary of defense for
policy.
Ballentine is the director of sustainability, renewable
energy, sustainable facilities, and stakeholder engagement for Wal-Mart Stores
Inc., a position she has held since 2008.
Since 2001, Ballentine has served as a guest lecturer at
Duke University, George Washington University and Kenan-Flagler School of
Business.
She has a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University
and a master’s of business administration degree from George Washington
University.
McCord is presently the principal deputy undersecretary of
defense (comptroller), a position he has held since 2009. From 1987 to 2004,
McCord served in a number of roles on the Senate Armed Service Committee.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and a
master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
McKeon is deputy assistant to the president, executive
secretary of the National Security Council, and chief of staff for the National
Security Staff at the White House, a position he has served in since 2012.
McKeon served as the deputy national security advisor to the
vice president from 2009 to 2012. He was on the Presidential Transition’s State
Department Agency Review Team, and served as the deputy staff director and
chief counsel at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1997 to 2009,
serving under then-Sen. Joe Biden.
He previously was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert
Doumar.
McKeon has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre
Dame and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Wormuth is deputy undersecretary of defense (strategy,
plans, and forces) a position she has held since 2012. Before coming to DOD,
Wormuth was special assistant to the president for national security affairs
and senior director for defense policy on the National Security Staff from 2010
to 2012.
Previously, she served as principal deputy assistant
secretary of defense for homeland defense and Americas’ security affairs in the
office of the secretary of defense from 2009 to 2010.
Before joining the administration, she was a senior fellow
in the international security program at the center for strategic and
international studies from 2004 to 2009.
Wormuth received her bachelor’s degree from Williams College
and a master’s degree in public policy from the School of Public Affairs,
University of Maryland.
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