Tapatia joins Obama cabinet
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- Published on Friday, 11 April 2014 11:30
- Written by GR Staff
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden this week swore in Guadalajara-born Maria Contreras-Sweet as the new Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) – the second Hispanic in President Obama’s second-term cabinet.
Contreras-Sweet, 58, became the first Latina cabinet secretary in the history of California, oversaw one of the largest state government agencies in the country and built a successful bank dedicated to serving Latino communities from scratch.