Draft:Amy Pechacek

Amy Pechacek serves as the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development secretary, a cabinet-level appointment under Governor Tony Evers.

Evers named Pechacek the transition leader at the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) on Sept. 18, 2020, and asked for the resignation of then DWD Secretary Caleb Frostman, citing a backlog of unemployment insurance claims during the pandemic.

Gov. Evers appointed Pechacek secretary-designee on Dec. 29, 2020. Pechacek hired Google to help clear the backlog of unemployment insurance claims. The solution used predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to evaluate claims and clear a backlog that a team of adjudicators faced.

Evers appointed Pechacek in October 2023 to lead a 30-member commission on artificial intelligence, called the Governor's Task Force on Workforce and Artificial Intelligence.