Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of South Dakota, received Noem's official resignation as governor on Saturday after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to be President Donald Trump's secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Donald Trump's administration. The confirmation vote was 59–34,

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is in Codington County about 187 miles northeast of the state's capital Pierre. The new Secretary of Homeland Security is married to Bryon Noem.

The Senate is voting to confirm Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump's plans to clamp down on illegal immigration.

Larry Rhoden, the right-hand man of South Dakota's first female governor, Kristi Noem, has officially succeeded to the state's highest office. Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of ...

Larry Rhoden, the right-hand man of South Dakota's first female governor, Kristi Noem, has officially succeeded to the state's highest office. Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of ...

The two term South Dakota Gov. was tapped by Trump in Nov. and will be key in enacting the new president's mass deportation plan.