Clark Minor

Coder, age 35
Tech Industry Links: Palantir

A former head of cloud strategy at Palantir, Clark Minor was named the CIO for Health and Human Services in February. in that position, he is able to grant access for DOGE staff to many systems.

Positions

Position Notes
HHS
HHS 2/XX/25-2/14/25 Chief Technology Officer ($195,200)
HHS 2/14/25 promoted to Chief Information Officer ($195,200) «Salary inferred»
HHS NIH 2/24/25 internal xfer «date inferred from system access»
HHS FDA c.2/25/25 internal xfer «mentioned as meeting with FDA staff in late Feb/early March»
HHS 8/XX/25 Acting Chief AI Officer

Events

Date Event
2/24/25
Three DOGE staffers – Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Clark Minor – are listed as part of the NIH Business System Department. This would grant them access to NIH’s central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system
2/24/25
Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.
c.2/25/25
FDA staff conduct a meeting to provide a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor, the new CIO for HHS. (fuzz: date is just given as late February and early March for meetings)
3/XX/25
In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grants, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the Payment Management System system.
9/09/25
All employees at HHS and its subsidiary agencies receive an email informing them that ChatGPT will be rolled out to the entire agency immediately. The rollout is being managed by Clark Minor, and the email states that the deployment is secure enough that agency staff can even include procurement-sensitive data and “non-sensitive” PII into the chats, although sensitive PII, classified informatio and other confidential information should not be shared.