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Memorandum of January 3, 2025 

Designation of Officials of the Office of Personnel Management To Act as Director 

Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform 

Act of 1998, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the ‘‘Act’’), it is hereby 

ordered that: 

Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the provisions of section 2 of 

this memorandum, and to the limitations set forth in the Act, the following 

officials of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in the order listed, 

shall act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of the 

Director of OPM (Director) during any period in which both the Director 

and the Deputy Director have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable 

to perform the functions and duties of the office of Director: 

(a) Chief of Staff; 

(b) General Counsel; 

(c) Chief Management Officer; 

(d) Associate Director, Workforce Policy and Innovation; 

(e) Chief Financial Officer; 

(f) Associate Director, Retirement Services; and 

(g) other Associate Directors, in order of seniority based on date of appointment to such position. 

Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in an office listed 

in section 1 of this memorandum in an acting capacity shall, by virtue 

of so serving, act as Director pursuant to this memorandum. 

(b) No individual who is serving in an office listed in section 1 of this 

memorandum shall act as Director unless that individual is otherwise eligible 

to so serve under the Act. 

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this memorandum, the President 

retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this memorandum in designating an acting Director. 

Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of December 10, 2020 

(Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of Personnel Management), is hereby revoked. 

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable 

law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right 

or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by 

any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, 

its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 


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(d) You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in 

the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, January 3, 2025 

[FR Doc. 2025–00672 

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