Congresswoman Sharice Davids, a Democrat of Roeland Park, Kansas, is being vetted for the position of Secretary of Agriculture in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden. She would be the first openly gay person to serve in the cabinet on a permanent basis (Ambassador Rick Grenell served briefly as Director of National Intelligence on an interim basis in the Trump administration), and she would be the first indigenous person to serve in a cabinet role.
During the Trump administration, the Department of Agriculture was formally relocated from Washington to Kansas City — in an effort to better connect the federal bureaucracy with those it is intended to serve.
