Former National Nuclear Security Administration No. 2 Madelyn Creedon is part of President Elect Joe Biden’s (D) transition team, the Biden camp announced Wednesday.
Creedon is one of 19 people on Biden’s Department of Energy beachhead team, which is led by Arun Majumdar: currently a professor at Stanford University’s department of mechanical engineering in California, but previously the first director of DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy in the Barack Obama administration.
While several other members of the Biden transition team have prior DOE experience, none have a stronger defense-nuclear pedigree than Creedon: principal deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the Barack Obama administration between 2014 and 2017, and a longtime Washington hand who made other stops in the DOE nuclear-security apparatus in the mid- to late-1990s and early aughts.
The Donald Trump administration so far has not granted the Biden transition team access to office space and career officials at federal agencies, media reported this week.
Taking a spot on a transition team is not a foolproof indicator that someone wants a job in the incoming administration, but nor is it unprecedented for transition officials to take a government job.
Creedon has been noncommittal about her intentions. In a webcast meeting last week before the presidential election, she declined to comment about whether she would return to federal service, should President Elect Biden call on her.
