Commissioner Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley was nominated by President Biden to be Commissioner of the Social Security Administration and, following confirmation by the U.S. Senate, was sworn into office December 20, 2023 by Senator Ben Cardin.
Commissioner O'Malley is a lifelong public servant. He served as Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015, following two terms as Mayor of the City of Baltimore. Prior to being elected Mayor, O'Malley served as a member of the Baltimore City Council from 1991-1999 and Assistant States Attorney for the City of Baltimore before that.
A pioneer of using performance-management and customer service technologies in government, O'Malley has written extensively about how to govern for better results in the Information Age by measuring the outputs of government on a real-time basis.
As Commissioner, Mr. O'Malley is responsible for administering the Social Security retirement, disability, and survivors insurance programs that pay over 1.4 trillion dollars annually in benefits to more than 66 million beneficiaries, as well as the Supplemental Security Income program that provides cash assistance to approximately 7.5 million people with limited income and resources. The agency has a workforce of about 61,000 employees and 1,500 facilities across the country and around the world.
Commissioner O'Malley graduated from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1985, and earned his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1988. He and his wife of over 30 years, Judge Katie Curran O'Malley, have four children, Grace, Tara, William, and Jack.
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