Dat Tran | |
Office: | United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Term Label: | Acting |
Term Start: | January 20, 2021 |
Term End: | February 9, 2021 |
President: | Joe Biden |
Deputy: | Carolyn Clancy (acting) |
Predecessor: | Robert Wilkie |
Office1: | United States Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Enterprise Integration |
Term Label1: | Acting |
Term Start1: | January 20, 2021 |
Term End1: | November 4, 2021 |
President1: | Joe Biden |
Preceded1: | Melissa Sue Glynn |
Succeeded1: | Guy Kiyokawa |
Birth Place: | Vietnam |
Education: | Ohio State University (BS) |
Dat P. Tran is an American civil servant who served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Enterprise Integration and was the acting United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from January 20 to February 9, 2021.
Tran was born in Vietnam. His family settled in Ohio and he graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in industrial systems engineering.[1]
Tran worked for Square D Power Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He worked for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee from 1995 to 2001.[2]
On January 20, 2021, following the inauguration of President Joe Biden, Tran was selected to act as interim United States secretary of veterans affairs, pending the confirmation of nominee Denis McDonough by the United States Senate.[3]