LaVerne H. Council, MBA, DBA was the Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology and Chief Information Officer for the Office of Information and Technology within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Council assumed this role in July 2015. President Obama nominated Council to the role in March 2015. Council was confirmed by the 114th Congress on June 23, 2015, making Council the first female CIO of a Cabinet-level federal agency. She managed a $4.2B Information Technology (IT) appropriation, the first centralized and only IT appropriation in the federal government.
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{"type":"standard","title":"Caddo Lake Drawbridge","displaytitle":"Caddo Lake Drawbridge","namespace":{"id":0,"text":""},"wikibase_item":"Q5016307","titles":{"canonical":"Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge","normalized":"Caddo Lake Drawbridge","display":"Caddo Lake Drawbridge"},"pageid":3816211,"thumbnail":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Mooringsport_LA_Bridges.jpg/330px-Mooringsport_LA_Bridges.jpg","width":320,"height":240},"originalimage":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Mooringsport_LA_Bridges.jpg","width":3072,"height":2304},"lang":"en","dir":"ltr","revision":"1278557334","tid":"86ef3861-f7ea-11ef-bb56-6569a7e0054e","timestamp":"2025-03-03T04:46:53Z","description":"United States historic place","description_source":"local","coordinates":{"lat":32.69628,"lon":-93.95785},"content_urls":{"desktop":{"page":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge","revisions":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge?action=history","edit":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge?action=edit","talk":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge"},"mobile":{"page":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge","revisions":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge","edit":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge?action=edit","talk":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Caddo_Lake_Drawbridge"}},"extract":"The Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge, also known as the Mooringsport Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1914, to replace a ferry, by the Midland Bridge Company of Kansas City, Missouri, under authority of the Caddo Parish Police Jury. The lift span has been inoperable since the 1940s.","extract_html":"
The Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge, also known as the Mooringsport Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1914, to replace a ferry, by the Midland Bridge Company of Kansas City, Missouri, under authority of the Caddo Parish Police Jury. The lift span has been inoperable since the 1940s.
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