Eric Fanning

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Eric Fanning (2015)

Eric Kenneth Fanning (born July 2, 1968 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) is an American government official. He served as the Department of Defense's chief of staff under Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter . Previously, he was Under Secretary of the Air Force and, from June to December 2013, managing director of the United States Secretary of the Air Force . From May 2016 to January 2017, he served as the United States Secretary of the Army .

Life

Education

Eric Fanning grew up in Michigan and Ohio and studied at Dartmouth College until 1990 story , which he graduated with a Bachelor from. According to his own statements, he was interested in the New Hampshire primaries for the 1988 presidential election .

politics

As early as the 1990s, Fanning worked in the Pentagon, at that time in the House Armed Services Committee and in the office of the Secretary of Defense . Another post in Washington took him to the Political Department of the White House . From July 2009 Fanning initially worked in the Department of the Navy , as Deputy Under Secretary and Chief Management Officer , he was also part of the commission against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their use by terrorists .

He was appointed Under Secretary in the Department of the Air Force by US President Barack Obama on August 1, 2012 , and confirmed by the US Senate on April 18, 2013. With the resignation of Michael Donley as Secretary , he was appointed on August 21 , 2012 June 2013 Acting Secretary and continued official business until the appointment of Deborah Lee James in December 2013.

In September 2015, Fanning was appointed acting head of the Department of the Army to succeed John M. McHugh . After another interim administration by Patrick Murphy , Fanning was proposed by President Obama as the new Secretary of the Army. The confirmation by the US Senate took place on May 18, 2016. With the end of Barack Obama's term of office on January 20, 2017, Fanning also resigned from his post.

Free economy

Stations outside of the state apparatus led Fanning to Business Executives for National Security , a think tank, and to Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery (now Young & Rubicam ), a communications company in New York .

homosexuality

Eric Fanning was the most senior self -confessed homosexual in the US Department of Defense and has positioned himself politically accordingly. He called for a corresponding regulation for the US armed forces that prohibits discrimination against gays and lesbians:

"I personally like to see these things in writing and codified."

"Personally, I would like to see this [d. H. a ban on discrimination against homosexuals in the US armed forces ] is written down and codified. "

- Eric Fanning

Fanning was a member of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund from 2004 to 2007 .

Web links

Commons : Eric Fanning  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services - United States Senate. (pdf) In: gpo.gov. United States Senate, accessed May 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Schogol, Jeff: Donley retires; Under Secretary Fanning becomes acting AF secretary. In: Air Force Times. June 21, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2013 .
  3. ^ A b Bornstein, Daniel: Obama taps alum. for top Air Force position. (No longer available online.) In: The Dartmouth (web archive). August 7, 2013, archived from the original on August 11, 2012 ; Retrieved November 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thedartmouth.com
  4. ^ A b Johnson, Chris: Soaring at the Air Force. In: Washington Blade. May 31, 2013, accessed June 21, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Schogoll, Jeff: Donley retires; Under Secretary Fanning becomes acting AF secretary. In: Military Times. June 21, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .
  6. ^ President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts. In: White House. August 1, 2012, accessed April 19, 2013 .
  7. ^ Johnson, Chris: Senate confirms gay official as Air Force under secretary. In: Washington Blade. April 19, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013 .
  8. ^ Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning sworn in. In: Stars & Stripes. June 21, 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Army Times: President nominates first openly gay Army secretary
  10. ↑ Gay should be US Secretary of the Army. In: tagesschau.de. Tagesschau, September 19, 2015, archived from the original on September 20, 2015 ; Retrieved September 19, 2015 .
  11. ^ Reuters News Trust: US Senate backs Fanning as Army secretary
  12. ↑ DPA announcement: Schwuler becomes Army Minister, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, edition of May 19, 2016, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Fanning, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fanning, Eric Kenneth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American government official
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalamazoo , Michigan