The Senate on Tuesday voted 50-47 to confirm Julie Su as the deputy secretary at the Department of Labor.
No Republicans voted to confirm Su to the position. President Biden nominated her to the position in February.
California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019 appointed Su as California’s Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, which oversees issues like unemployment insurance, the Agricultural Labor Relations Board and the Public Employee Relations Board. She previously served in a more limited role as California’s labor commissioner from 2011 to 2018.
Prior to that, she was the litigation director at civil rights group Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles and a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1994 and received a bachelors degree from Stanford University.
Su will now be in the second highest position at the Department of Labor.
