How senior is assistant secretary?

Off the Hill
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I’m new to a lot of stuff here but I was wondering how senior the role is? I saw that this guy held the role in the last admin but now he’s only an assistant professor which I thought basically translates to entry level professor?

Wondering because someone in my office was making a big deal of the fact they were friends with current asst secretaries but it doesn’t seem very impressive?

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It’s very senior. And Graham was the former chief counsel on senate banking under Sherrod brown for a while, so definitely not a junior person.

But agreed that his new role is a bit surprising given how senior he was up to this point.