Who’s Who in Defense: Daniel Sullivan, Ranking Member, SASC Readiness and Management Support Subcommittee

The 11-member Senate subcommittee has oversight over military readiness including: training, logistics, and maintenance; military construction; housing construction and privatization; contracting and acquisition policy; business and financial management; base realignment and closure; and defense energy and environmental programs.

By Catherine Macaulay on September 08, 2021 at 10:22 AM

Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support

Daniel S. Sullivan, R-Alaska

Responsibilities

The 11-member Senate subcommittee has oversight over military readiness ,including: training, logistics, and maintenance; military construction; housing construction and privatization; contracting and acquisition policy; business and financial management; base realignment and closure; and defense energy and environmental programs.

Legislative Committees

Senate Airland Subcommittee.
Senate Strategic Forces Subcommittee.
Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Political/Military/Professional Career

Elected to the Senate in 2014; reelected in 2020; term ends in 2027.
Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (2010-2013).
Deployed to Afghanistan for six weeks as executive officer of the 4th Marine Division’s Anti-Terrorism Battalion (2013).
Attorney general of Alaska (2009-2010).
Assistant secretary of state for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs under during George W. Bush administration (2006-2009).
Served on the National Economic Council and the National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration.
Director of the International Economics Directorate of the National Security Council and White House National Economic Council staffs (2002-2004).
Lawyer for the Anchorage-based law firm of Perkins Coie, LLP, focusing on corporate law and commercial litigation (2000-2002).
Clerked for Judge Andrew Kleinfeld in Fairbanks, Alaska, and for Chief Justice Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme Court (1997-1999).
Served in the Marine Corps (active duty) from 1993 to 1997 and in the Marine Corps Reserves (1997-present).

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D./M.F.S. – 1993.
Harvard University, B.A. in Economics – 1987.
Culver Military Academy graduate – 1983.

Personal

Daniel Scott Sullivan was born on November 13, 1964, in Fairview Park, Ohio, the son of Sandra (née Simmons) and Thomas C. Sullivan, formerly president and CEO of RPM International, a publicly traded manufacturing company founded by his father, Frank C. Sullivan, who established a roof coatings business in 1947.
Married to Julie Fate. Three children.