Kathleen Hicks | |
---|---|
Official portrait, 2021 | |
35th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office February 9, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Secretary | Lloyd Austin |
Preceded by | David Norquist |
9th Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy | |
In office May 24, 2012 – July 2, 2013[1] | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | James Miller[1] |
Succeeded by | Brian P. McKeon |
Personal details | |
Born | Kathleen Anne Holland[2] September 25, 1970 Fairfield, California, U.S.[2] |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Thomas Hicks |
Children | 3 |
Kathleen Holland Hicks[3] (born September 25, 1970)[2][4] is an American government official who has served as the United States deputy secretary of defense since February 9, 2021,[3] where she will lead the modernization of the country's nuclear triad.[5][6] Hicks is the first Senate-confirmed woman in this role.[7] In 2012, Hicks was the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration. By 2020 Hicks was an American academic and national security advisor working as a senior vice president and director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[8] She is the highest ranking woman currently serving in the United States Department of Defense.
Education[]
Hicks completed an A.B. in history and politics at Mount Holyoke College in 1991. She graduated with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors.[9] In 1993, she earned a M.P.A. in national security studies at University of Maryland, College Park.[10] Hicks completed a Ph.D. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010.[11] Her dissertation was titled Change Agents: Who Leads and Why in the Execution of US National Security Policy. Charles Stewart III was Hicks' doctoral advisor.[10]
Career[]
From 1993 to 2006, Hicks was a career civil servant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, rising from Presidential Management Intern to the Senior Executive Service. She was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2006 to 2009, leading a variety of national security research projects.[9]
During the Obama administration in 2009, Hicks was appointed deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans and forces in 2009.[12] In 2012, Hicks was the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration.[13] In that role, she was a liaison for the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and oversaw the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance.[14] Hicks was a presidentially appointed commissioner for the National Commission on the Future of the Army. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of advisors for the Truman National Security Project and SoldierStrong.[9]
Hicks formerly served as a senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and director of the international security program at CSIS. She concurrently served as the Donald Marron scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.[14] In October 2020, she also served on the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, co-chaired by Heidi Larson and J. Stephen Morrison.[15]
On December 30, 2020, Hicks was announced as U.S. president-elect Joe Biden's nominee for United States deputy secretary of defense. She appeared before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on February 2, 2021.[16] She was confirmed by voice vote of the full Senate on February 8, 2021 and sworn into office on February 9, 2021.[17]
Selected works[]
- Hicks, Kathleen; Ridge, Eric (2007) (in en). Planning for Stability Operations: The Use of Capabilities-based Approaches. Center for Strategic and International Studies. ISBN 978-0-89206-515-8.
- Hicks, Kathleen H. (2008) (in en). Invigorating Defense Department Governance: A Beyond Goldwater-Nichols, Phase 4, Report. Center for Strategic and International Studies. ISBN 978-0-89206-528-8.
- Hicks, Kathleen H.; Wormuth, Christine E.; Ridge, Eric (2009) (in en). The Future of U.S. Civil Affairs Forces. Center for Strategic and International Studies. ISBN 978-0-89206-568-4.
- Alterman, Jon B.; Hicks, Kathleen H. (2015) (in en). Federated Defense in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-5881-5.
- Hicks, Kathleen H.; Metrick, Andrew; Samp, Lisa Sawyer; Weinberger, Kathleen (2016-08-02) (in en). Undersea Warfare in Northern Europe. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-5968-3.
- Hicks, Kathleen H.; Samp, Lisa Sawyer (2017) (in en). Recalibrating U.S. Strategy toward Russia: A New Time for Choosing. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-8006-9.
- Hicks, Kathleen H.; Lauter, Louis; McElhinny, Colin (2018) (in en). Beyond the Water's Edge: Measuring the Internationalism of Congress. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-8088-5.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Department of Defense Key Officials September 1947–December 2020. p. 35. https://history.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/key_officials/KeyOfficialsNew12-29-20.pdf. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Nominations Before The Senate Armed Services Committee, Second Session, 112th Congress". 2013. https://books.google.com/books?id=dOyxTzKpXb0C.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "PN79-5 — Kathleen Holland Hicks — Department of Defense". https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/79/5.
- ↑ "Hicks, Kathleen H.". https://viaf.org/viaf/46546159/.
- ↑ Paul McCleary (2 Feb 2021) DepSecDef Will Run Most Missile Defense, Nuke Modernization; SecDef Recused
- ↑ Paul McCleary (24 Feb 2021) New Hicks Memo Sets Acquisition, Force Posture 2022 Budget Priorities Feb. 17 memo.
- ↑ Seligman, Lara (December 30, 2020). "Kathleen Hicks is Biden's pick to be first female deputy Defense secretary" (in en). https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/30/biden-first-female-deputy-defense-secretary-452283.
- ↑ Breaking Defense (19 Feb 2021) WHO’S WHO IN DEFENSE: KATHLEEN HICKS, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Biography: Commission on the National Defense Strategy for the United States". https://policy.defense.gov/Portals/11/Documents/Bios/NDS%20Kathleen%20Hicks.pdf?ver=2018-04-04-114259-440. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Hicks, Kathleen H. (2010) (in en). Change Agents: Who Leads and Why in the Execution of US National Security Policy (Ph.D. thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 671485930. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59793.
- ↑ Zimmerman, Leda (May 4, 2020). "A forum for female voices in international security" (in en). https://news.mit.edu/2020/future-strategy-forum-female-voices-international-security-0504.
- ↑ Rozen, Laura (April 2, 2009). "Pentagon appointments" (in en-US). https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/04/02/pentagon-appointments/.
- ↑ Sullivan, Kate; Lee, MJ (December 30, 2020). "Biden names Kathleen Hicks as first woman deputy defense secretary". https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/30/politics/biden-defense-department-hicks-kahl/index.html.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Seck, Hope Hodge (2020-12-30). "Biden Taps Kathleen Hicks to Be the Pentagon's First Female Deputy SecDef" (in en). https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/12/30/biden-taps-kathleen-hicks-be-pentagons-first-female-deputy-secdef.html.
- ↑ Call to Action: CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation, October 19, 2020 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
- ↑ "How Kathleen Hicks will approach nukes, shipbuilding and the budget". DefenseNews. February 2, 2021. https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2021/02/02/how-kathleen-hicks-will-approach-nukes-shipbuilding-and-the-budget/.
- ↑ "DOD Announces New Deputy Secretary of Defense". U.S. Department of Defense. February 9, 2021. https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2498391/dod-announces-new-deputy-secretary-of-defense/.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kathleen Hicks. - Appearances on C-SPAN
- K on Twitter
All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL.
The original article can be found at Kathleen Hicks and the edit history here.