David Norquist

Norquist graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Public Policy in 1989. In 1995, he received a Masters in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.

Norquist began his career in 1989 as a GS-9 Program Budget Analyst, a federal civil servant position for the Department of the Army, and served in that position for four years. From 1993 to 1995, he was both a budget analyst and senior chaplain in the Chaplain Candidate Program in the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command. Norquist was Director of Resource Management at Menwith Hill Station in Harrogate, United Kingdom for the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1995-1996. For six years, between 1997 and 2002, Norquist worked as a staffer on the Subcommittee on Defense for the House Appropriations Committee. Between 2002 and 2006, he was Deputy Undersecretary of Defense in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller of the Department of Defense.

In 2006, Norquist was selected by President George W. Bush to be Chief Financial Officer at the Department of Homeland Security, a position he held for nearly three years. As the first person to be confirmed by the Senate for that position, he took steps to address widespread problems with DHS's financial statements.

In 2008, Norquist joined Kearney and Company, a certified public accounting firm, as a partner.

Norquist being sworn in by Secretary of Defense James Mattis on June 7, 2017.

On March 20, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Norquist as defense undersecretary, comptroller in the Department of Defense. He was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2017.

Norquist and his wife, Stephanie, have three children. He is the younger brother of Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform.

• "The Defense Budget. Is It Transformational?", Joint Force Quarterly (National Defense University publication), Summer 2002.