Education
Cabinet
Deputy
Secretary
Robert
McWilliams’
expertise
in
workforce
development
comes
from 27
years of
working
with
unemployment
insurance
and
employment
services
issues
in
Kentucky
state
government.
In
addition
to
serving
as
deputy
secretary,
McWilliams'
duties
include
oversight
of the
Department
for
Workforce
Investment.
McWilliams
has
provided
direction
and
oversight
of five
branches
of state
government
including
the
Unemployment
Insurance
Trust
Fund,
benefit
payment
system,
tax
collection
system,
appellate
staff,
budget
preparation,
fraud
overpayment
detection
and
recovery
and
quality
control.
As a
specialist
in
unemployment
insurance
matters,
McWilliams
has
worked
with
private
sector
and
labor
representatives
on
legislative
issues
and
acted as
a
liaison
with the
federal
Department
of
Labor.
During
his
state
government
career,
the
Lawrenceburg
native
has been
involved
in all
facets
of
employment
services
from the
frontline
as an
on-the-job
training
coordinator
to the
acting
director
of
unemployment
insurance.
McWilliams
earned a
bachelor’s
degree
in
general
business
at
Eastern
Kentucky
University
in 1975,
and has
completed
courses
at
Mississippi
State
University
and
National
Judicial
College.
McWilliams
and his
wife
Lynne
have
been
married
for 28
years
and have
two
grown
children.
The
couple
lives in
Frankfort.
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