Openly Gay OPM Chief John Berry: The next interior secretary?

Federal employees may know John Berry  as the face of the workforce in his role as director of the Office of Personnel Management. Berry, 53, is now expected to be considered by the Obama administration to replace Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who confirmed early Wednesday that he will leave his post in March and return to Colorado. Read our profile of Berry in last September’s Style section. Interior secretaries generally hail from the West, and Berry, a Rockville native, does not. But the president is under intense pressure from gay activists to appoint an openly gay secretary to his cabinet, a historic move. And Berry fits the bill.