Rachel Levine

In July 2017 Governor Wolf appointed Levine as Secretary of Health. She was unanimously confirmed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature.

In 2015, Levine was nominated by Governor-elect Tom Wolf to be Pennsylvania's Physician General. She served in this post until 2017.

She was previously married and has 2 children, David and Dayna. She made the decision to transition (from man to woman) in 2011. Levine and her wife, Martha Peaslee Levine, divorced in 2013 but remain "good friends". When she transitioned, she chose the name Rachel for its similarity to her birth name, Richard; she later learned that her parents had planned to name her Rachel, had she been born female.

After moving from Manhattan to central Pennsylvania in 1993, she joined the staff at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She had, by 2014, become a "top doctor" at the facility. During her tenure there, she had created Penn State Hershey Medical Center's adolescent medicine division, and eating disorders clinic. She was in charge of the latter when she was nominated for the position of Pennsylvania Physician General in 2015.

Levine had a fellowship at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital from 1988 to 1993 where she trained in pediatrics.

Rachel L. Levine (born Richard L. Levine in 1957) is an American pediatrician currently serving as the Pennsylvania Secretary of Health. She also serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. She was previously Pennsylvania's Physician General. She is one of only a handful of openly transgender government officials in the United States.