An Interior Department official is taking on a senior counselor role as the department reorganizes following a series of Senate confirmations.
Adam Suess, who previously served as acting assistant secretary for lands and minerals management, is now senior counselor to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, according to a post last week on LinkedIn.
“I’m grateful to Secretary Burgum for the opportunity to serve him as Senior Counselor to the Secretary at U.S. Department of the Interior,” Suess said in the post.
Suess had held the interim assistant secretary position until the Senate confirmed Leslie Beyer — President Donald Trump’s nominee — to the role of assistant secretary for land and minerals management last month. The Senate also recently confirmed William Doffermyre as Interior solicitor and Andrea Travnicek as assistant secretary for water and science.
