1. Andrea Joan Palm was born on 1973 and is an American government health advisor who served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025.
18 Facts About Andrea Palm
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Previously, Palm served as secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Governor Tony Evers, an office she was never sworn into due to Republican opposition in the Wisconsin Senate.
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Andrea Palm worked as a senior staffer in the US Department of Health and Human Services and as a White House policy advisor during the presidency of Barack Obama.
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Andrea Palm was an aide to Hillary Clinton during her time in the United States Senate.
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Andrea Palm earned a Bachelor of Science degree in human services studies from Cornell University and Master of Social Work from the Washington University in St Louis.
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Andrea Palm began her career as a legislative assistant for California Congressman Bob Matsui.
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Andrea Palm then worked as a health policy advisor to then-US Senator, Hillary Clinton.
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In 2009, Andrea Palm was appointed deputy assistant United States Secretary of Health and Human Services for Legislation by President Barack Obama.
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Andrea Palm then served as a policy advisor to the United States Domestic Policy Council at the White House.
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Andrea Palm re-joined the Department of Health and Human Services to serve as an advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health and Chief of Staff of the HHS.
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In January 2019, Governor-elect Tony Evers nominated Andrea Palm to serve as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
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Andrea Palm's nomination stalled in the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature, with members citing Andrea Palm's decision to name a former Planned Parenthood lobbyist as her deputy.
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The order expired in late April 2020, but on May 26,2020, Andrea Palm extended the order at Evers' direction.
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Republican state legislators sued Andrea Palm, seeking to strike down her order.
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Andrea Palm's updated stay-at-home order was struck down in a ruling by the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, effectively reopening several businesses in the state against warnings by public health officials.
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On January 18,2021, it was announced that Andrea Palm would be nominated to serve as United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services in the incoming Biden administration.
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Andrea Palm subsequently announced that her last day at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services would be January 20,2021.
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Andrea Palm is married to Dan Utech, a former advisor in the United States Department of Energy and United States Domestic Policy Council.