KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday appointed Vivek Malek as the state’s next treasurer to succeed Auditor-elect Scott Fitzpatrick.
Malek will be sworn into the office in early January when Fitzpatrick officially resigns from the role to become Missouri’s next auditor.
Malek becomes the first person of color to hold statewide office in Missouri. As of 2016, the AP found Missouri was among 10 states that had exclusively elected white people to statewide office since Reconstruction.
