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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Deborah Lee James answers a question posed to her during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd secretary of the Air Force. Besides James four other nominees were being considered for jobs throughout the Department of Defense. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jim Varhegyi)SecAF Nomination Hearing
                        
                        
                        Deborah Lee James answers a question posed to her during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd secretary of the Air Force. Besides James four other nominees were being considered for jobs throughout the Department of Defense. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jim Varhegyi)
                
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        Ms. Deborah Lee James (foreground center) listens to a question from Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee James Inhofe Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd sSecretary of the Air Force. If confirmed, James would be the second female secretary in the Air Force's history. The first was Shelia Widnall, who served as secretary from 1993 to 1997.  Besides James four other nominees were being considered for jobs throughout the Department of Defense.SecAF Nomination Hearing
                        
                        
                        Deborah Lee James (foreground center) listens to a question from a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee James Inhofe Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd secretary of the Air Force. Besides James four other nominees were being considered for jobs throughout the Department of Defense.
                
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        Ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee James Inhofe (left) greets Deborah Lee James prior a committee hearing  Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd secretary of the Air Force. Besides James four other nominees were being considered for jobs throughout the Department of Defense.SecAF Nomination Hearing
                        
                        
                        Ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. James Inhofe (left) greets Deborah Lee James prior to a committee hearing Sept. 19, 2013, Washington, D.C. The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd Secretary of the Air Force. Besides James, four other nominees were also considered for various positions throughout the Department of Defense. Also pictured are Jessica G. Wright nominated to be under secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and Frank G. Klotz nominated to be under secretary for Nuclear Security.
                
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SecAF nominee testifies before Senate committeePublished Sept. 20, 2013
            **WASHINGTON (AFNS) --**Secretary of the Air Force nominee Deborah Lee James testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee Sept. 19, in Washington, D.C.
The committee convened to consider her nomination by President Barack Obama to be the 23rd secretary of the Air Force.
"Deborah's strong record of public service and leadership in the private sector makes her uniquely qualified to be my nominee for Secretary of the Air Force," Obama said in a news release.Senate Armed Services Committee 



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