By ALYSSA ROSENBERG, Government Executive
President Obama has appointed Kathie Ann Whipple, the deputy general counsel of the Office of Personnel Management, to head the agency on an acting basis, OPM announced on Friday.
"I am humbled to have been designated by President Obama to serve as the acting director of OPM, an agency it has been my pleasure to serve for the past eight years," Whipple said in a statement. "I look forward to leading OPM until the president appoints and the United States Senate confirms the next director."
Though Whipple's statement noted that her appointment was only temporary, it is not yet clear why Obama chose to appoint an acting director. It has been widely reported that John Berry, director of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, is the leading candidate to head OPM.
Obama has appointed a number of other officials to acting positions at federal agencies within the past several days. Late on Thursday, he named Stuart Ishimaru acting chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Christine Griffin to be acting vice chairwoman. Paul Prouty, a 38-year veteran of the General Services Administration, was appointed acting administrator of that agency, replacing Jim Williams. And midday on Friday, Dennis Taitano, acting associate administrator for operations and management at the Farm Services Administration, learned that Obama was named him as acting head of FSA.
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