Julie Scanlon
Julie Scanlon serves as the Executive Assistant Administrator (EAA) of Enterprise Support responsible for the strategic and tactical leadership, direction, management, and support services to all TSA employees and programs.
After earning a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland with documentation in paralegal studies, Scanlon began work as a paralegal for the Judge Advocate General, United States Air Force before joining the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Scanlon was later promoted to the Director’s Special Projects Coordinator, serving as a key member to modernize the National Weather Service.
While at NOAA, she received four bronze medals, NOAA Research Employee of the Year for Outstanding Leadership and the National Weather Service Modernization Award. Scanlon later became the Associate Director for Strategic and Administrative Management for the Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations at the Smithsonian Institution. In this role, she managed human capital, strategic planning, and communications programs as well as implemented an automated performance management system and reduced hiring timeliness.
In 2014, Scanlon joined TSA as the Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) for Human Capital (HC), developing and sustaining innovative programs that enabled TSA to attract, hire, retain and deploy a skilled workforce to support the agency’s counterterrorism mission and provide risk-based security for the nation’s transportation systems. In 2018, she moved into the position of TSA’s Assistant Administrator for Operations Management within Security Operations where she was responsible for the staffing model for all airports as well as the National Deployment Force. She left this position for her current role in 2022.