Biden nominates Chinese-American John Tien to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. (West Point Facebook)
President Biden announced a list of key personnel at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on December 12, including the nomination of Chinese-American John Tien, who was the first Asian-American brigade commander at West Point and served as a national security advisor during the Obama and Bush Jr. administrations, as deputy secretary.
Johnson, who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and has two daughters with his wife, Tracy Tien, graduated from West Point with a degree in civil engineering and earned a master’s degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholars. He was also a national security scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School.
He is also a former National Security Scholar at Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with an oak leaf cluster, the Combat Action Badge, and the Valorous Unit Award, and was the first Asian brigadier general and brigadier general in the history of West Point. He is also the first Asian-American brigade commander and first captain in the history of West Point.
Johnson served as senior director of the NSC for Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009 to 2011 under the Obama administration, and as director of the NSC for Iraq under the Bush administration; he was also a White House Fellow in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative during the Clinton administration.
Before retiring from the Army in 2011 with the rank of colonel, he was a combat arms officer in the U.S. Army, a career that lasted 24 years and involved multiple combat missions in Iraq as well as other assignments at home and abroad; after 2011, he served as managing director at Citigroup.
Other DHS appointments announced by Biden on the same day include the nomination of Jen Easterly, who earlier served as head of cyber policy on the Biden-He Jinli transition team, as director of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Bureau; the nomination of Ur Jaddou, who has more than 20 years of experience in immigration law, as director of the Bureau of Immigration; and the nomination of Chris Magnus as director of the Federal Customs and Border Protection Agency. Magnus to serve as director of federal Customs and Border Protection (CBP); and Rob Silvers to serve as undersecretary for strategy, policy and planning at DHS and Jon Meyer to serve as general counsel at DHS.
John Tien, of Chinese descent, was the first Asian-American brigadier general at West Point. (West Point Facebook)
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