The Bureau of Land Management’s senior leadership shuffle continues.
Karen Kelleher, who in March was reassigned from deputy director of state operations to serve as acting director of the bureau’s Alaska office, will not be returning to her deputy director’s post.
Instead, Kelleher will transition to another top headquarters position — assistant director of business management and administration — the bureau announced to senior executives Friday in an email viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
The assistant director’s position Kelleher will take over on June 29 is responsible for overseeing development of BLM’s budget, as well as handling contracts and communicating internal bureau policies and priorities to roughly 9,000 employees. Barbara Eggers, who had held the post since 2019, stepped down last month after accepting the deferred resignation and early retirement offer that allows staffers to stay on the federal payroll through September if they agree to leave as part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to reshape the government workforce.
