Robert Wilkie
Robert Leon Wilkie Jr. is an American lawyer and government official serving as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was confirmed on July 23, 2018 by the U.S. Senate; the confirmation vote was 86–9. Wilkie was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, and attended Salisbury Cathedral School in England, and Reid Ross High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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Robert Leon Wilkie Jr. is an American lawyer and government official serving as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration. He was confirmed on July 23, 2018 by the U.S. Senate; the confirmation vote was 86–9. Prior to becoming the VA Secretary, Wilkie served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from November 30, 2017 to July 30, 2018. Wilkie was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, and attended Salisbury Cathedral School in England, and Reid Ross High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He received his B.
A. degree from Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1988 and an LL. M. degree in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D. C. In 2019, he was named fifty-second among the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare. On March 2, 2020, the office of Vice President Mike Pence announced Wilkie’s addition to White House Coronavirus Task Force. In December 2020, a Veterans Affairs inspector general investigation informed the Department of Justice of possible criminal conduct by Wilkie.
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