Wayne Woman Named Wolf's Chief of Staff

Kathleen McGinty (Photo courtesy of the governor-elect’s office)

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Gov.-elect Tom Wolf has named Kathleen McGinty his chief of staff, he announced Monday.

McGinty, who faced Wolf during Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary earlier this year, lives in Wayne with her husband and three children.

“Katie McGinty has broad experience in state and federal government and in the private sector,” Wolf said. “She will be an asset to my administration and to the people of Pennsylvania. In federal and state government, Katie worked with diverse interests to achieve meaningful change in difficult environments. Her experience will help me work with Republicans and Democrats to move Pennsylvania forward.”

McGinty served as Deputy Assistant and then as Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Bill Clinton. She was named Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Environment Protection in 2003 by then-Gov. Ed Rendell, a position she held until 2008.

Wolf will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2015, which is when McGinty will take office. Until then, she will be helping Wolf build his administration, the governor-elect’s office said.