 Sarah Gagné-Holmes joined the senior leadership team at DHHS just two months after Mills took office in 2019. She previously worked as a health care attorney and as a policy advisor, and Mills named Gagné-Holmes acting commissioner in May after the agency's longtime leader, Gene Lambert, stepped down to work on national policy issues. Gagné-Holmes' nomination will have to be confirmed by the Maine Senate, but Senator Joe Baldacci, who co-chaired the