Deputy Secretary of the Interior
Lynn Scarlett
Lynn Scarlett was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior
on November 2005, a post she took on after 4 years as the Department's Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget. She served as Acting Secretary
of the Department upon the resignation of former Secretary Gale Norton effective
April 1, until the confirmation of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on May 26, of
2006. She serves on the Executive Committee of the President's Management Council.
Ms. Scarlett coordinates Interior's environmental policy initiatives to implement
the President's executive order on cooperative conservation, serving on the White
House Cooperative Conservation Task Force. She chairs the Department's Climate Change Task Force and she co-chairs the President and First Lady's Preserve America initiative on historic preservation and heritage tourism. She
serves on the Board of Trustees of the Udall Foundation as the Department of
the Interior representative. From June 2003-2004, she chaired the federal Wildland
Fire Leadership Council, an interagency and intergovernmental forum for implementing
the National Fire Plan and 10-Year Implementation Plan.
Prior to joining the Bush Administration in July 2001, she was President of the
Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, a nonprofit current affairs research and
communications organization.
Ms. Scarlett is author of numerous publications on incentive-based environmental
policies. Ms. Scarlett received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her Ph.D. coursework
and exams in political science and political economy.
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