Eugene Louis Dodaro (born May 7, 1951) is the Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). From October 1, 2000, until March 12, 2008, he was the chief operating officer (COO) of the GAO and he held the equivalent second-in-command title before the late 2000 restructuring of the GAO, Principal Assistant Comptroller General, a title he had held since May 1999. This change of titles is a result of the organization-wide restructuring rather than a promotion or other event in his career; from May 1999 through to March 12, 2008, Dodaro retained the position of second in command of the GAO.
Dodaro joined the GAO in 1973.[4] His first executive posting was as an associate director for management issues in the General Government Division.[3] In 1993 he was named Assistant Comptroller General for Accounting and Information Management.[5] In 1999 he became the GAO's second in command.[5]
On February 15, 2008, when the seventh Comptroller General of the United States, David M. Walker, announced that he was departing from his office before the end of his 15-year term to work for The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, he appointed Dodaro to replace him. On March 13, 2008, Dodaro became the Acting Comptroller General[6] and was nominated by President Obama.[7] He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a term of fifteen years on December 22, 2010.[8] He was sworn in eight days later.[9]
^"Dodaro Swearing In" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: Government Accountability Office. December 30, 2010. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019. Dodaro took the oath of office today at GAO's headquarters in Washington, D.C. and was sworn in by Patrina Clark, Chief Human Capital Officer for GAO.
