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Douglas William Domenech is an American government official who is the incoming Assistant United States Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs. He is the former Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Department of the Interior, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, and a George W. Bush administration appointee to the White House Working Group on the Political Status of Puerto Rico.
Born August 5, 1955, in Puerto Rico, Douglas W. Domenech grew up in a military family and lived in the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Puerto Rico as a child. His father, John Domenech, served in the Army for 30 years and retired as a colonel. Doug Domenech graduated Antilles High School in Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, in 1973 and earned a B.S. in Forestry and Wildlife Management at Virginia Tech University in 1978.
From 2010 to 2014, Domenech served as Governor Bob McDonnell's Secretary of Natural Resources of the Commonwealth of Virginia, making him the first Hispanic and Puerto Rican person to be appointed to McDonnell's cabinet. At the time of his appointment, Domenech, whose background is in forestry management, was working for a lobbying firm. Domenech worked for 12 years for the Forest Resources Association, a national trade association representing the forest products industry. He is the father of blogger and columnist Ben Domenech.
He is also the Interior Secretary's representative on the Advisory Committee of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico.