{{Short description|American healthcare executive (born 1971/1972)}} {{Use shortened footnotes|date=August 2025}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Amy Gleason | image = P20250730JB-0613 (cropped).jpg | caption = Gleason in 2025 | office = Administrator of the United States DOGE Service | status = Acting | president = Donald Trump | term_start = {{Circa|February 2025}} | term_end = | predecessor = Mina Hsiang (as the United States Digital Service) | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|53|2025|3|9}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | children = 1 | education = University of Tennessee }} '''Amy Gleason''' (born 1971/1972) is an American healthcare executive and former nurse who has served as the acting administrator of the United States DOGE Service since 2025.

Gleason graduated from the University of Tennessee. She worked as an emergency room nurse but quit her job after her daughter was diagnosed with juvenile myositis in 2010. Gleason co-founded CareSync in 2011 and served as its chief operating officer. After the company abruptly shut down, she began working for the United States Digital Service as a digital services expert in October 2018. Her work involved improving technology systems at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Gleason was a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force's data team. She left the Digital Service in December 2021. Gleason served as the chief product officer of Main Street Health and worked with Russell Street Ventures.

In December 2024, Brad Smith, the founder of Russell Street Ventures, began advising Elon Musk on the Department of Government Efficiency. That month, she rejoined the United States Digital Service and recommended three applicants, including Luke Farritor. By February 2025, Gleason was assisting officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. On February 25, an official in the Trump administration stated that Gleason had been serving as the acting administrator of the United States DOGE Service. Her role as administrator was largely assumed by Steve Davis; she has focused on technology at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, including standardizing data-sharing between the federal government and companies.

==Early life and education== Gleason was born in 1971 or 1972.{{Sfn|Chuck|2025}} She graduated from the University of Tennessee.{{Sfn|Chuck|2025}}

==Career== ===Early work and healthcare executive (1993–2018)=== Gleason worked as an emergency room nurse but quit her job after her daughter was diagnosed with juvenile myositis in 2010. She worked at Veradigm, then known as Allscripts.{{Sfn|Cheney|Messerly|2025}} Gleason co-founded CareSync in 2011 and served as its chief operating officer.{{Sfn|Thomas|Andrews|2025}} Additionally, Gleason served as the vice president of research for the Cure JM Foundation from 2014 to 2018.{{Sfn|Chuck|2025}} She spoke about her daughter's condition in a TEDx event in Boston in April 2020.{{Sfn|Thomas|Andrews|2025}}{{Sfn|Craw|2025}} Gleason studied "gamification" at the University of Pennsylvania. She founded a consultancy business, Gleason Strategies, in Florida. In 2015, the Obama administration named Gleason as one of nine "Champions of Change for Precision Medicine".{{Sfn|Craw|2025}}

===United States Digital Service (2018–2021)=== In October 2018,{{Sfn|Hernandez|2025}} after CareSync abruptly shut down,{{Sfn|Foley|Slodysko|2025}} Gleason joined the United States Digital Service as a digital services expert.{{Sfn|Ewing|Johansen|2025}} Her work involved improving technology systems at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.{{Sfn|Foley|Slodysko|2025}} She was a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force's data team{{Sfn|Hernandez|2025}} and worked on SimpleReport, a COVID-19 reporting system by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.{{Sfn|Wetsman|2021}} Concurrently, Gleason studied healthcare management at Pasco-Hernando State College from 2018 to 2019.{{Sfn|Craw|2025}} She left the Digital Service in December 2021.{{Sfn|Hernandez|2025}}

===Post-government work (2021–2024)=== After leaving the United States Digital Service, Gleason served as the chief product officer of Main Street Health and worked with Russell Street Ventures.{{Sfn|Thomas|Andrews|2025}}

== Acting Administrator of the United States DOGE Service (2025–present) == In December 2024, Brad Smith, the founder of Russell Street Ventures, began advising Elon Musk on the Department of Government Efficiency. On December 30, Gleason rejoined the United States Digital Service. The following month, she began regularly consulting with Smith and Steve Davis on the Department of Government Efficiency. Gleason oversaw the transition of the United States Digital Service into the United States DOGE Service, including the agency's move from the Office of Management and Budget to the Executive Office of the President of the United States.{{Sfn|Nehamas|Conger|Mac|2025}} She publicly identified her role as a senior advisor at the United States Digital Service in January.{{Sfn|Ewing|Johansen|2025}} In the final weeks of the Biden administration, Gleason recommended three Digital Service applicants, including Luke Farritor.{{Sfn|Swan|Schleifer|Haberman|Mac|2025}} By February, Gleason was assisting officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.{{Sfn|Schleifer|Nehamas|Conger|Mac|2025}}

On February 25, an official in the Trump administration stated that Gleason had been serving as the acting administrator of the United States DOGE Service, though the Department of Government Efficiency was effectively led by Elon Musk.{{Sfn|Nehamas|Conger|Mac|2025}} Gleason's involvement in DOGE's actions was not known.{{Sfn|Chuck|2025}} The beginning of Gleason's tenure is unclear; a lawyer for the Department of Justice told a federal judge that he was "not able to get an answer" on who led the United States DOGE Service prior to the announcement, but definitively stated that it was not Musk.{{Sfn|Kavi|Montague|2025}} On February 18, Gleason, joined by Kendall Lindemann, met with United States DOGE Service employees who joined the agency as the United States Digital Service.{{Sfn|Kelly|2025b}} She was viewed by employees as a liaison between existing employees, DOGE employees, and other government agencies.{{Sfn|Kelly|2025a}}

Despite leading the United States DOGE Service, Gleason is not believed to be involved in its operations;{{Sfn|Patterson|Thomas|2025}} her responsibilities were largely assumed by Davis.{{Sfn|Mac|Conger|Schleifer|2025}} In February, she was detailed to the United States Department of Health and Human Services and formally hired on March 4.{{Sfn|Cheney|Messerly|2025}} That month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stated that Gleason was leading efforts to modernize data and IT systems at the agency.{{Sfn|Diamond|2025}} Gleason's work involved modernizing Medicare and Medicaid.{{Sfn|Cheney|Gerstein|2025}} She led a plan to standardize data-sharing between the federal government and companies.{{Sfn|Cohrs Zhang|Tozzi|2025}} Gleason later called for a larger federal workforce{{Sfn|Heckman|2025}} and greater access to patient data.{{Sfn|Yeung|2025}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

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Who is Amy Gleason? |date=February 26, 2025 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 5, 2025}} * {{Cite news |last=Diamond |first=Dan |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/trump-presidency-news/#link-K6MWJE7XDFGCVAXL2BS2JM22KM |title=DOGE's Amy Gleason to lead data, IT modernization efforts at Medicare, Medicaid |date=February 26, 2025 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 5, 2025}} * {{Cite web |last1=Ewing |first1=Giselle |last2=Johansen |first2=Ben |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/doge-leader-elon-musk-00002670 |title=The White House has evaded for weeks on saying who is leading DOGE. Here's who it is. |date=February 25, 2025 |work=Politico |access-date=August 5, 2025}} * {{Cite web |last1=Foley |first1=Ryan |last2=Slodysko |first2=Brian |url=https://apnews.com/article/doge-amy-gleason-musk-trump-caresync-62a0c13b8ecf153d449f09537d45e630 |title=Meet Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator who may — or may not — be wielding extraordinary power |date=March 8, 2025 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=August 5, 2025}} * {{Cite web |last=Heckman |first=Jory |url=https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/09/after-federal-workforce-cuts-doge-chief-says-we-need-to-hire/ |title=After federal workforce cuts, DOGE chief says 'we need to hire' |date=September 4, 2025 |publisher=Federal News Network |access-date=November 23, 2025}} * {{Cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Joe |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310634/amy-gleason-doge-administrator |title=Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of DOGE, the White House says. 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