MAINE MORNING STAR • May 30, 2024
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will deliver the keynote address at the Maine Democratic Party convention on June 1, the party announced Thursday. Haaland, a former U.S. representative from New Mexico, was one of the first Native American women elected to Congress. She was then nominated by President Joe Biden in 2021 to head the U.S. Department of the Interior, which stewards public lands, becoming the first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Haaland will focus her speech around the stakes of the upcoming 2024 election.