President-elect Biden recently announced the selection of Marty Walsh to be labor secretary, Gina Raimondo to be commerce secretary, Michael Regan to be Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, and Isabel Guzman to be the Small Business Administration (SBA) administrator.
Walsh, 53, has been the mayor of Boston since 2014. Originally from Dorchester, he served as a state representative in the Massachusetts Legislature for over a decade before becoming mayor. Prior to that, he was the president of the Laborers Local 223 union and led the Boston Building Trades, which is a union umbrella organization.
Raimondo, 49, is currently serving as the first female governor of Rhode Island. Originally from Smithfield, Rhode Island, she received her undergraduate at Harvard, masters and doctor of philosophy degrees as a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford, and her law degree from Yale University. She co-founded a venture capital firm in Boston specializing in health care investments before becoming the general treasurer of Rhode Island in 2011.
Regan, 45, has been the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality since 2017. Originally from Goldsboro, North Carolina, Regan worked for the Environmental Defense Fund for over eight years. He has held numerous positions within the EPA from 1998 to 2008, working in the Clinton and Bush administrations. If confirmed by the Senate, Regan would be the first African American man to serve as EPA administrator.
Guzman has served as the director of the Office of the Small Business Advocate of California since 2019. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Guzman has worked as an advisor to ProAmerica Bank in Los Angeles, California as well as deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to the administrator at the SBA during the Obama administration.
