Governor Tim Walz has announced Shireen Gandhi will serve as the temporary commissioner for the Department of Human Services (DHS), taking over for Commissioner Jodi Harpstead, who is leaving the ...

Jodi Harpstead, commissioner of the Department of Human Services, will resign her post effective Feb. 3, according to the governor’s office. Gov Tim Walz thanked Harpstead for her time serving ...

Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) Commissioner Jodi Harpstead will step down from her role Feb. 3, Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday. Harpstead has lead the agency since her appointment in ...

Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead will step down next month, Gov. Tim Walz announced on Monday.

The head of Minnesota’s largest state agency is stepping down. Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead announced Monday that she’s leaving her role on Feb. 3. Harpstead was ...

Jodi Harpstead, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, announced her resignation Monday. She will leave the department Feb. 3.

DHS Commissioner Jodi Harpstead wrote in response to the audit that most of the debt is from organizations no longer doing business, and that the agency’s contractor in charge of recovering the ...

Commissioner Jodi Harpstead of the Minnesota Department of Human Services created a needlepoint rendition of a piece by artist Red George that hangs in the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Administrative ...

In 2019, Walz appointed Jodi Harpstead, the former head of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and a self-described “Lutheran girl” herself, to run the state’s Department of Human Services.

But UnitedHealth Group’s suit said that department commissioner Jodi Harpstead has “refused to renew the contracts for plan year 2025 because of a provision snuck into the Jumbo Omnibus on the ...

Mary is survived by her husband, of 74 years, Dale Harpstead and sons; Daniel (Sharon) Harpstead, Stanley (Jodi) Harpstead, Philip (Gail) Harpstead, Thomas (Claudia) Vergara-Harpstead, and ...

In the fall of 2019, only weeks after taking the helm of Minnesota's largest state agency, Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead was thrust into a political firestorm over her department's ...