知情人士周二向美国广播公司证实，当选总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)预计将任命前密歇根州州长詹妮弗·格兰霍尔姆(Jennifer Granholm)担任能源部部长。
61岁的格兰霍尔姆曾担任两届州长，也是密歇根州第一位女性首席执行官，在1999年至2003年担任该州总检察长后，于2002年首次当选领导金刚狼州。如果得到参议院的批准，格兰霍尔姆将是第二位领导能源部的女性，也是拜登迄今提名的第九位女性他的内阁。
根据《五·三十八》杂志的报道，如果拜登提名的九名内阁女性都得到美国参议院的确认，这将打破比尔·克林顿总统和巴拉克·奥巴马总统创造的美国历史上在一个内阁中任职的女性最多的记录。
保罗·桑奇亚/美联社，档案
在这张2016年7月28日的档案照片中，前密歇根州州长詹妮弗·格兰霍尔姆在决赛中发言
拜登和格兰霍姆在一起有很长的历史。这位前州长在2008年总统选举中作为奥巴马的竞选伙伴时，在辩论准备期间代表当时的阿拉斯加州州长和共和党副总统候选人萨拉·佩林。
一位熟悉转型思路的消息人士指出，格兰霍尔姆在2009年复苏期间与拜登在密歇根州合作，拯救了美国汽车业，并导致该州投资绿色能源工作岗位——拜登雄心勃勃的基础设施计划也将寻求投资这一领域。
据消息人士称，鉴于格兰霍尔姆多年的管理经验，她被认为是一个知名人物，有能力应对该国当前面临的挑战。
格兰霍尔姆目前是加州大学伯克利分校的法学副教授，在2008年金融崩溃后，奥巴马政府纾困汽车业时，他是密歇根州州长，此后他一直大力倡导扩大美国电动汽车的发展。
拜登的一名过渡官员没有回应就格兰霍尔姆的潜在提名置评的请求。
Biden to name former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to lead Department of Energy: Sources
President-Elect Joe Biden is expected to name former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to head the Department of Energy, sources familiar with the decision confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday.
Granholm, 61, a former two-term governor and Michigan's first female chief executive, was first elected to lead the Wolverine State in 2002, after serving as the state's attorney general from 1999 to 2003. If confirmed by the Senate, Granholm would be just the second woman to lead the Energy Department and would be the ninth woman Biden has nominated so far to serve inhis Cabinet.
If all nine women Biden has named to serve in his Cabinet are confirmed by the U.S. Senate, that would break the record set by both President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama for the most women to serve in a single Cabinet in U.S. history, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Biden and Granholm have a long history together. The former governor stood in for then-Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin during his debate preparations when he was Obama's running mate during the 2008 presidential election.
A source familiar with the transitions thinking pointed to Granholm’s work with Biden in Michigan during the 2009 recovery that rescued the U.S. auto industry, and led to investments in green energy jobs in the state – something Biden’s ambitious infrastructure plan would also seek to invest in.
Granholm is viewed as a known-quantity and well-positioned to address the current challenges facing the country, according to the source, given her years of executive experience.
Granholm is currently an adjunct professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and was governor of Michigan when the Obama administration bailed out the auto industry following the 2008 financial collapse and has since been a vocal advocate for the expansion of America's development of electric vehicles.
A Biden transition official did not respond to a request for comment on Granholm's potential nomination.
