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Governor-elect Braun adds Jennifer-Ruth Green, Suzanne Jaworowski to cabinet

The southwest exterior of the Indiana Statehouse.
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IPB News
Gov.-elect Mike Braun has announced who will fill most of the newly-created positions in his cabinet.

Gov.-elect Mike Braun is adding more names to his newly-created cabinet positions ahead of taking office next month.

Jennifer-Ruth Green will serve as secretary of public safety, overseeing agencies that include the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Correction, and the Law Enforcement Academy.

Suzanne Jaworowski will take on the role of secretary of energy and natural resources. Agencies under her purview include the Departments of Environmental Management and Natural Resources.

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Green has more than two decades of military service, most recently as deputy commander of a joint Naval and Air Force facility in Washington, D.C. She also made an unsuccessful run for Congress in northwest Indiana in 2022.

Jaworowski has worked for years in the energy sector, including as a consultant and as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Energy under the first Trump administration. She’s currently serving as an executive at the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, the electric grid operator for the central United States.

Brandon is our Statehouse bureau chief. Contact him at bsmith@ipbs.org or follow him on Twitter at @brandonjsmith5.

Brandon Smith has covered the Statehouse for Indiana Public Broadcasting for more than a decade, spanning three governors and a dozen legislative sessions. He's also the host of Indiana Week in Review, a weekly political and policy discussion program seen and heard across the state. He previously worked at KBIA in Columbia, Missouri and WSPY in Plano, Illinois. His first job in radio was in another state capitol - Jefferson City, Missouri - as a reporter for three stations around the Show-Me State.