Daniel Driscoll
Secretary of the Army
Daniel Patrick Driscoll is a native of North Carolina. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer and earned a Ranger tab through the U.S. Army Ranger School.
After his military service, Driscoll interned for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee during law school. He worked in investment banking in North Carolina and became Chief Operating Officer of a venture capital fund.
President Donald Trump nominated Driscoll to serve as the Secretary of the Army in December 2024. He was confirmed by the Senate and assumed the role in February 2025.
Driscoll is married to Cassie, and they have two children.
In the News…
The U.S. Army is updating the records of military personnel who deal with gender dysphoria to reflect their chromosomal sex. The service is also addressing pronouns and intimate spaces. The move is part of the process to facilitate the separation of transgender troops from the U.S. Armed Forces.
The service branch memo stated, “Commanders will take immediate measures to update personnel records and administrative systems to reflect biological sex for all individuals.” The memo affirmed that an individual’s sex is “unchanging during a person’s life.”
The memo directed that pronouns must be reflective of biological sex as well “in keeping with good order and discipline, salutations (e.g., addressing a senior officer as ‘sir‘ or ‘ma’am‘).”
The branch also ordered, “Commanders will ensure all such shared intimate spaces will be clearly designated for either male, female, or family use.”
