• n  a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government

News & Articles

• New Air Force Leader Becomes Highest-Ranking Openly-Gay Person in Defense Dept
  Undersecretary of the Air Force for just two months, Eric Fanning is now the acting civilian leader of the military branch after the retirement Friday of Air Force Secretary Michael Donley made him the highest-ranking openly-gay person at the Defense Department. Fanning, having started his career...
  June 24, 2013 - ABC News via Yahoo! News
• Gay Man Becomes Acting Secretary of Air Force
  Eric Fanning, undersecretary of the service branch, ascends to the top post on an interim basis with the retirement of Air Force secretary Michael Donley. read more
  June 22, 2013 - The Advocate
• Undersecretary to become acting secretary of the Air Force
  Eric Fanning, currently serving as undersecretary of the Air Force, is expected to assume the post of acting secretary of the U.S. Air Force on Friday, June 21, 2013.
  June 21, 2013 - Stars and Stripes

Quotes

• Condoleezza Rice in The Age
  This decision to send Undersecretary Burns is an affirmation of the policy that we have been pursuing with our European allies ...... for some time now,Rice said. "It is, in fact, a strong signal to the entire world that we have been very...
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Forbes
  Undersecretary Edelman has his priorities backward,Clinton wrote, calling his claim "outrageous and dangerous."
• Ban Ki-moon in International Herald Tribune
  Having heard strong views from member states,Ban told the ambassadors on Friday "I am ready to propose that the high representative would be appointed at the rank of undersecretary-general."