David Ross, President Trump’s nominee to head the EPA’s Office of Water, was confirmed by a voice vote of the full Senate December 14. Previously the director of the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Environmental Protection Unit, Ross has also served as a senior assistant attorney general for the State of Wyoming, where he represented the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality on water quality issues. In this role, he also served on the Assumable Waters Subcommittee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. He also worked in the private sector, as a California-based environmental consultant and also as an environmental attorney in Washington D.C.
Ross was nominated by Trump on September 2 and was approved by the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee by voice vote on October 25.