1. Michael Okerlund Leavitt was born on February 11,1951 and is an American politician who served as the 20th United States secretary of health and human services from 2005 to 2009 and the 10th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2003 to 2005.
Mike Leavitt started his career in 1972 and worked in the insurance and risk management industry until 1992.
Mike Leavitt was promoted to Secretary of Health and Human Services at the start of Bush's second term, serving until the conclusion of the Bush administration.
Mike Leavitt graduated with a degree in business from Southern Utah University and married Jacalyn Smith.
Mike Leavitt is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mike Leavitt is a descendant of an old Massachusetts Puritan family, and a direct descendant of Dudley Leavitt, a Mormon pioneer.
Mike Leavitt rose to become the company's president and CEO and presided over a period of expansion.
Mike Leavitt was appointed to the boards of directors of numerous local and regional companies, including Utah Power and Light, as well as a member of the Utah State Board of Regents.
In 1976, Mike Leavitt assisted his father, then a Utah state senator, in an unsuccessful campaign for governor.
Mike Leavitt worked on a number of US Senate campaigns through the 1980s for Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch.
Mike Leavitt had tough competition in the Republican Party primary from Richard Eyre who had more delegates vote for him at the state Republican convention.
Mike Leavitt defeated Independent Party candidate Merrill Cook and Democratic nominee Stewart Hanson in the general election, becoming the 14th Governor of the State of Utah.
Mike Leavitt was re-elected in 1996 with the largest vote total in state history.
In 2000, Mike Leavitt became only the second governor in Utah history to be re-elected to a third term.
Mike Leavitt organized and managed a collaboration to develop a federal plan to clean up the Great Lakes.
Mike Leavitt is the co-author of an environmental policy called Enlibra.
On December 13,2004, Mike Leavitt was nominated by Bush to succeed Tommy Thompson as Secretary of HHS, and was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on January 26,2005.
Mike Leavitt was commonly known for his advocating that Medicare was drifting toward financial insolvency.
Secretary Mike Leavitt cited the work of the World Health Organization's Michael McCoy as the most compelling scientific work into the avian flu threat.
In 2014 and 2015, Mike Leavitt advised Congress on how to improve the statutes governing presidential transitions.
In 2013, Mike Leavitt partnered with former Utah First Lady Norma Matheson and businesswoman Gail Miller to launch "Count My Vote", a bipartisan effort to push for state electoral reform.
In 2009, Mike Leavitt organized Mike Leavitt Partners, a consulting firm to advise clients in health care policy matters.