Margaret Busse joined the governor's cabinet in January 2021 to lead Commerce. Her department biography lists an MBA from Harvard and undergraduate study in public policy and economics at Brigham Young University. The department's leadership page heads her entry Commissioner, while the biography text under it calls her executive director of Commerce, so both titles appear in the agency's own materials. The biography says Governor Spencer Cox appointed her in January 2021 and credits her with experience in public service, social impact and strategy consulting, plus earlier leadership roles in local government.
