Dan Tangherlini

Daniel Tangherlini
Administrator of General Services
In office April 2, 2012 – February 13, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Deputy	Susan Brita
Preceded by	Martha Johnson
Succeeded by	Denise Turner Roth
Personal details
Born	circa 1967
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Theresa Picillo
Children	Cassandra Francesca
Alma mater	University of Chicago University of Pennsylvania

Daniel M. "Dan" Tangherlini is a former Administrator of the United States General Services Administration. Unanimously approved to the post by the United States Senate on June 27, 2013, he had served as Acting Administrator since his appointment by President Barack Obama on April 2, 2012. He earlier served as an executive in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as City Administrator of Washington, D.C., and as interim General Manager for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Tangherlini holds B.A. and M.P.P. degrees from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Tangherlini began his career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the Office of Management and Budget in 1991. He progressed through several positions in his time at OMB, and he transferred to the United States Department of Transportation in 1997. He worked for the United States Secretary of Transportation, where his work included Amtrak labor settlement negotiations and development of new approaches to infrastructure financing.

In November 1998 Tangherlini was loaned to the District of Columbia government, where he served as acting Chief Financial Officer for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The position became permanent, and he remained in the role until May 2000, and then as the director of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) until February 2006.

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