Bill Landrum to KY Governer's Cabinet

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FRANKFORT Ky. (WBKO)-- Governor-Elect Matt Bevin announced the appointment
of Colonel William M. Landrum III as Secretary of the Finance and
Administration Cabinet. 

According to the release, Landrum is a small business owner and retired
Army officer with a substantial background in financial and administrative
operations. According to Bevin's office, Landrum and his wife, Justine, live
in Greensburg, Kentucky where they own and manage a restaurant. They have two
grown children.

“Without a doubt, the Finance and Administration Cabinet Secretary is one
of the most critical roles in state government,” said Governor-Elect Bevin
in a press release. “Colonel Landrum is exceptionally qualified for this
role. He has decades of direct experience in government finance. He will serve
the Commonwealth well, as we work to repair the damage done to Kentucky's
financial foundation by recent years of neglect.”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the Commonwealth in this
capacity,” said COL (R) Landrum in a press release. “I look forward to
working with the many fine and talented folks in the Finance Cabinet.”

According to the release, Landrum has more than 36 years of worldwide
military service and corporate experience in the areas of resource management
and financial operations for sensitive Army Military Intelligence and
clandestine programs across the Department of Defense. Those areas include
accounting, budgeting, comptrollership, banking, contracting, auditing, and
personnel management.

Bevin's office says Landrum possesses a full range of supervisory,
managerial, and policy making experience along with a broad knowledge of
Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and installation level
policies, procedures, programs, and systems pertaining to finance and
accounting activities and operations in both peace and war.

In the release, it says during Landrum's final assignment with the Army,
COL (R) Landrum served for two years as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Army (Financial Operations) and four years as Commander of the U.S Army
Finance Command (USAFINCOM). Landrum was responsible for policies, procedures,
programs and systems pertaining to finance and accounting activities and
operations across the Army worldwide.

As Commander of USAFINCOM, COL (R) Landrum provided finance and accounting
support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the appointed financial
executive agent to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). During that
time, he was responsible for the development of the Army’s operational plan
for receiving, securing, accounting and moving of $1.5 billion of vested
assets from the Department of the Treasury to Kuwait and Baghdad in direct
support of the CPA. Also, Landrum had command and oversight responsibilities
for the direction and management of the Army’s Special Review Office, Army
Banking Program, field Finance and Accounting Operations, and E-Commerce
initiatives.

After his military service, COL (R) Landrum served as a Senior Associate of
the Booz Allen Hamilton Resource Management Consulting Support Team, where he
provided a full range of resource management consulting support to clients,
according to Bevin's press release.

Landrum is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University
of Kentucky, where he received his Master’s in Business Administration with
a concentration in Accounting and Auditing. He is also a graduate of the U.S.
Army War College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

During his years of military service, Landrum earned a number of
commendations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit,
a Bronze Star Medal, a Meritorious Service Medal (with five Oak Leaf
Clusters), an Army Commendation Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Army
Achievement Medal (2nd Award), the Saudi Arabian Kuwait Liberation Medal, the
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Korean Defense Service Medal and
the South West Asia Service Medal (with three Campaign Stars).