John Gibbs (government official)

John Gibbs
Gibbs in 2018
Administrator of Ottawa County, Michigan
In office January 3, 2023 – February 29, 2024
Preceded by	John Shay
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development
Acting March 2020 – January 20, 2021
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Neal Rackleff
Succeeded by	Vacant
Personal details
Born	Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	Stanford University (BS) Harvard University (MPA)

John Gibbs is an American far-right^[1][2][3] politician and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, Gibbs was a software engineer and missionary before entering politics. During the Donald Trump administration, he held roles in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and was acting Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Community Planning and Development. Gibbs has a history of making false, inflammatory, and conspiratorial remarks on his Twitter feed.^[4][5]

In July 2020, Trump nominated Gibbs to be director of the United States Office of Personnel Management, but he was never confirmed by the Senate. Gibbs promoted Trump's false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He was the Republican nominee for Michigan's 3rd congressional district in the 2022 elections, having defeated incumbent Peter Meijer in the primary, but lost the general election to Democratic nominee Hillary Scholten in a landslide. In early 2023, the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, dominated by a newly elected ultraconservative majority, appointed Gibbs county administrator. His time in the role was tumultuous, and in February 2024, the county board fired Gibbs, citing gross misconduct.