# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathleen-hicks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:54:52.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathleen-hicks"
name: "Kathleen Hicks"
slug: "kathleen-hicks"
description: "Kathleen Anne Holland Hicks is a former American civil servant who served as the United States deputy secretary of defense from 2021 to 2025. She is the first Senate-confirmed woman in this role and is the highest-ranking woman to have served in the United States Department of Defense."
tagline: "American academic and civil servant"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kathleen_H._Hicks%2C_Deputy_Secretary_of_Defense.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1970-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "DepSecDef"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump