We have chairmen! The Senate today confirmed the nominations of both Rocco Landesman (right) to
be chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and Jim Leach to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Apologies for reporting earlier this week (here) that the NEH confirmation was moving along faster than the NEA. My only excuse is that’s what sources told me. So they were wrong and so was I.
The NEA posted this press release earlier today (link) and posted his bio, too (here). (I’m a little late catching up because I’ve been downtown in criminal court on jury duty — which is a pretty good excuse.)
I do not see the news on the NEH website yet, but the press office there did send me an email announcing Leach’s confirmation.
Both still need to be sworn in, but that is expected to happen within a few days.