Justice Management Division
Serving Justice - Securing Results
Mari Barr Santangelo’s appointment as the Deputy Assistant
Attorney General for Human Resources and Administration and Chief
Human Capital Officer at the U. S. Department of Justice commenced
in May 2005. In this position, she is accountable for Personnel
Services, Security and Emergency Planning, the Justice Library,
the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and Facilities and
Support Services. In addition she supervises the Executive Secretary
Office, and the Consolidated Executive Office, which provides
administrative services to the Justice Main offices.
Ms. Santangelo has been a Federal employee for 12 years, and
has been recognized for her service by the President with the
Meritorious Service Award in 2004. Her most recent appointments
were as follows: From February 2004 to May 2005, Ms. Santangelo
served as the Director, Human Capital Policy and Programs, in
the newly established Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In this capacity, under the CHCO, she was responsible for developing
new human resources polices and merging 22 human resource (HR)
systems into common systems for the new Department. From July
2000 to February 2004, Ms. Santangelo served in progressively
challenging positions at the Department of Transportation - she
was the Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration from March
2003 to February 2004. In addition, as Principal Deputy, she
was directly accountable for the Department’s human capital
and competitive sourcing plans, two of the five PMA initiatives;
and she had purview over the offices of Human Resources, Security,
Procurement, and grant management. Concurrently, she was the
Director of Human Resources, and was among the first to achieve “green” in
Human Capital.
Ms. Santangelo’s previous experience includes two White
House appointments: August 1997 – August 2000 as Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Human Resources at the U. S. Department
of the Interior; and May 1993 – August 1997 as Senior Advisor
to the Secretary at the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development. At Interior, Ms. Santangelo’s achievements
included: the development and implementation of an HR Strategic
Plan which yielded an award-winning web page, an Alternative
Dispute Resolution program; a successfully implemented human
resource information system for 8 bureaus and 70,000 employees;
and new senior and mid-management leadership programs. Also at
Interior, she formalized the Department’s relationship
with Hispanic Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges
and Universities, and Tribal Colleges that increased recruitment
and retention of the workforce. At HUD, Ms. Santangelo’s
greatest achievement was her leadership as the Secretary’s
point person in HUD’s response to the April 19, 1995
Oklahoma disaster. In addition she also served the Secretary
on labor/management partnerships and as the Departmental Director
of EEO, she trained over 200 new counselors, and implemented
an award-winning diversity program. Prior to her Federal career,
Ms. Santangelo worked at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
for 19 years, as a professional Counselor for 10 years, Director
of EEO, and as the Executive Assistant to the Chancellor.
Ms. Santangelo earned her Bachelor of Science in Sociology and
Psychology and her Masters of Science in Counseling, from the
University of Wisconsin. She is married to Richard Diego Santangelo
and they are the proud parents of 22-year-old twin daughters,
Molly and Emily. |