Political Conversions
Merit System Accountability and Compliance (MSAC) reviews agency requests to appoint current or recent political appointees to competitive or non-political excepted service positions to ensure appointments comply with merit system principles and applicable civil service laws. Please send any inquiries to politicalconversions@opm.gov.
Related Information
- Agency Pre-Appointment Checklist for Competitive Service Positions
- Agency Pre-Appointment Checklist for Non-Political Excepted Service Positions
- Agency Merit Staffing Review Checklist Senior Executive Service Positions
- Policy on Political Appointees FAQs
- CHCO Memorandum on Pre-Appointment Reviews for 10-Year Term Appointments
- Reports to Congress
- Reference Memos on Political Appointees and Career Civil Service Positions:
- Political Appointee and Career Civil Service Positions Memo (12/30/2022
- Political Appointees and Career Civil Service Positions (02/22/2021)
- Political Appointees and Career Civil Service Positions (02/23/2018)
- Political Appointees and Career Civil Service Positions (11/05/2009)