After Amy Gleason’s sudden rise to prominence, mystery surrounds the DOGE acting administrator

Dawn Zimmer returns to acting Energy CIO after SpaceX engineer's short tenure

Roughly a month after being replaced as acting CIO of the Department of Energy, Principal Deputy CIO Dawn Zimmer is now back serving in the department’s top IT role, multiple sources familiar with the change confirmed to FedScoop. Zimmer is filling the CIO position for the second time since Inauguration Day after Ryan Riedel briefly took on the role overseeing the department’s $4.3 billion IT portfolio in early February. As FedScoop first report…

Who is DOGE’s Amy Gleason? Ex-nurse and data cruncher is a ‘straight shooter'

Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, had been a relatively low-profile health care data cruncher before.

After Amy Gleason's sudden rise to prominence, mystery surrounds the DOGE acting administrator

Amy Gleason, a former emergency room nurse-turned-health care technologist, was scared. It was 2010 and no doctor could figure out what was behind her daughter Morgan’s strange constellation of symptoms, including rashes and muscle weakness so severe that she could no longer walk upstairs, NBC News reported. When Morgan was finally diagnosed with a rare and potentially life-threatening autoimmune disorder after more than a year, Gleason became d…

After Amy Gleason’s sudden rise to prominence, mystery surrounds the DOGE acting administrator

Gleason previously worked as a health care data cruncher, inspired by her daughter’s rare disease. Her working relationship with Elon Musk is unclear.

After Amy Gleason’s sudden rise to prominence, mystery surrounds DOGE acting administrator

Amy Gleason, a nurse turned health care technology consultant, was recently named the acting administrator for DOGE. How much control she has at DOGE is unclear.

Who is Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of DOGE?

In his address to Congress Tuesday, President Donald Trump made clear that Elon Musk is in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency. Yet government lawyers have argued in court that Gleason and not Musk is the agency’s leader.