New DNR Secretary is Appointed

Karen Hyun will be the state’s next secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, a cabinet position that’s gone unfilled for more than a year. Hyun will assume the office on Jan. 27, and her appointment marks the end of the office’s longest vacancy in more than 50 years. She is the first woman to lead the DNR since Cathy Stepp, an appointee of Republican former Gov. Scott Walker, who left the agency to become a regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2017. Hyun would also be the first Asian American person to lead the DNR.

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