Governor-Elect Matt Bevin has Col. William M. Landrum III, USA, Ret. as Secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet. Col. Landrum is a small business owner and retired Army officer with a substantial background in financial and administrative operations.
“Without a doubt, the Finance and Administration Cabinet Secretary is one of the most critical roles in state government,” said Governor-Elect Bevin. “Colonel Landrum is exceptionally qualified for this role. He has decades of direct experience in government finance. He will serve the Commonwealth well, as we work to repair the damage done to Kentucky’s financial foundation by recent years of neglect.”
“I am grateful for the opportunity to serve the Commonwealth in this capacity,” said Landrum. “I look forward to working with the many fine and talented folks in the Finance Cabinet.”
Landrum has more than 36 years of worldwide military service and corporate experience in the areas of resource management and financial operations for sensitive Army Military Intelligence and clandestine programs across the Department of Defense. Those areas include accounting, budgeting, comptrollership, banking, contracting, auditing, and personnel management. He possesses a full range of supervisory, managerial, and policy making experience along with a broad knowledge of Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and installation level policies, procedures, programs, and systems pertaining to finance and accounting activities and operations in both peace and war.
During his final assignment with the Army, Landrum served for two years as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Operations) and four years as Commander of the U.S Army Finance Command (USAFINCOM). In this capacity, he was responsible for policies, procedures, programs and systems pertaining to finance and accounting activities and operations across the Army worldwide. As Commander of USAFINCOM, Landrum provided finance and accounting support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the appointed financial executive agent to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). During that time, he was responsible for the development of the Army’s operational plan for receiving, securing, accounting and moving of $1.5 billion of vested assets from the Department of the Treasury to Kuwait and Baghdad in direct support of the CPA. Also, Landrum had command and oversight responsibilities for the direction and management of the Army’s Special Review Office, Army Banking Program, field Finance and Accounting Operations, and E-Commerce initiatives.
After his military service, Landrum served as a Senior Associate of the Booz Allen Hamilton Resource Management Consulting Support Team, where he provided a full range of resource management consulting support to clients.
Landrum is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Kentucky, where he received his Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and Auditing. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
During his years of military service, Landrum earned a number of commendations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star Medal, a Meritorious Service Medal (with five Oak Leaf Clusters), an Army Commendation Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), the Army Achievement Medal (2nd Award), the Saudi Arabian Kuwait Liberation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Korean Defense Service Medal and the South West Asia Service Medal (with three Campaign Stars).
Landrum and his wife, Justine, live in Greensburg, Kentucky where they own and manage a restaurant. They have two grown children.
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