Biden’s pick for assistant health secretary, Rachel Levine, would be first transgender official confirmed by Senate
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Dr. Rachel Levine, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, speaks during a press conference inside PEMA headquarters on Tuesday, August 18, 2020.Commonwealth Media Services: Natalie Kolb
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WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
A pediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general, Levine was appointed to her current post by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in 2017, making her one of the few transgender people serving in elected or appointed positions nationwide. She won past confirmation by the Republican-majority Pennsylvania Senate and has emerged as the public face of the state’s respo
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