On December 28, 1999, President Clinton appointed Frank S. Holleman III to serve as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Education. The Deputy Secretary serves as the chief operating officer of the Department and principal advisor to the Secretary on program policies and budget.
From 1994 to 1997, Holleman was Chief of Staff to Secretary of Education Richard Riley. He previously served from 1993 to 1994 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, overseeing the Office of Consumer Litigation and the Office of Immigration Litigation. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun from 1981-1982 and Judge Harrison Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1979-1980. In August 1999, Governor Jim Hodges appointed him to serve as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness, an early childhood initiative. In 1998, Governor-Elect Hodges appointed Holleman to serve as Chair of the Education Subcommittee of his Transition Team. Secretary Riley appointed him to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in 1997. Holleman was an attorney with the firm of Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Paham, P.A. where he practiced from 1997-1999 and previously from 1982-1993.
Holleman has also served as Co-Chair of the Board of Success by Six, a project of the Greenville United Way which focuses on the needs of young children, as Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board of the University Center, and as a board member of the Alliance for Quality Education.
He received a B.A. degree from Furman University, a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, and a M.Sc. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He and his wife, Anne, have three children. They are members of the Hughes Middle School and Augusta Circle Elementary School PTAs.
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