November 11, 2022 |
Governor Mark Gordon will begin his second term in office with a new chief of staff. The governor’s current chief of staff, Buck McVeigh, is retiring.
McVeigh’s in-depth knowledge of state government was learned first-hand over a 36-year career in with the State of Wyoming.
McVeigh’s first job with the state was in 1980 with the Department of Agriculture. It went on to include positions in the Department of Administration & Information, the State Auditor’s Office and the Public Service Commission along with the Governor’s Office. McVeigh was a longtime-member and 14-year executive branch co-chairman of the state’s Consensus Revenue Estimating Group (CREG). He also served as Executive Director of the Wyoming Taxpayers Association for five years.
In a statement, Governor Gordon called McVeigh’s service to Wyoming “distinguished” and “extraordinary.” McVeigh’s insights and working knowledge of state government were “invaluable” during Gordon’s first term in office.
McVeigh is reportedly leaving with a “heavy heart.”
The veteran of state government said that of all of his jobs during his career, serving as chief of staff was “inarguably the most difficult.”
McVeigh described the work as “a 24-7-365 job with endless days.”
McVeigh will finish the year as chief of staff and then be replaced by Drew Perkins who was a state senator from Natrona County until announcing his resignation on Thursday morning.
Perkins has represented District 29 in the Wyoming Senate since 2007, serving as senate president, vice president and chair of the joint appropriations committee. He comes to the governor’s office after working as an attorney in private practice for more than 30 years.
Pictured above: Buck McVeigh.
