David Longly Bernhardt is an American politician, attorney, oil and energy industry lobbyist, and a government administrator. He currently serves as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior. He became acting Secretary of Interior on January 2, 2019, replacing Ryan Zinke after he resigned from office.
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David Longly Bernhardt is an American politician, attorney, oil and energy industry lobbyist, and a government administrator. He currently serves as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior. Bernhardt grew up in Rifle, Colorado. He left high school early, earning his GED, then his bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1990. He graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School in 1994. He was a shareholder at the Colorado law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, he began working for the United States Department of Interior in 2001. He served as the department’s solicitor from 2006 to 2009, among other roles. He became acting Secretary of Interior on January 2, 2019, replacing Ryan Zinke after he resigned from office. President Donald Trump nominated Bernhardt to be the U.S. Deputy Secretary ofthe Interior in April 2017, and he was confirmed by the Senate on July 24, 2017. He resigned prior to January 2017, until the end of 2016, until he was de-listed as a lobbyist, to avoid his new ban on lobbyists. He is a member of the Virginia Board of Game and Inland Fisheries, chairman of its Finance, Audit & Compliance Committee, and chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Bernhardt was also the United.
States Commissioner to the International Boundary Commission, U. S. and Canada, and served in the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007. He has been married to his wife, Kelly, since 2007. They have three children. He lives in Colorado with his wife and two step-children, and they have a son and a daughter-in-law who live in Washington, D.C. and Washington, DC. He also has a son who lives in California and has a daughter who lives with her in Los Angeles. He worked as a lawyer in Colorado in the 1990s, and was an associate with Brownstein and Farber, a Denver law and lobbying firm. In 2011, Bernhardt filed a lawsuit for Westlands that sought to force the feds to make good on a commitment to build a multibillion-dollar system to dispose of the poisoned water resulting from toxic irrigation in the Westlands district.
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