Governor-elect Tony Evers is naming a former Obama administration official to head the state Department of Health Services.
Andrea Palm will serve as secretary of the department, with a $12 billion annual budget that oversees the state’s Medicaid and other public benefits programs.
Palm is originally from New York. She most recently served as senior counselor to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under President Obama, from 2014 until 2017.
