Bio, via Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:

Arne Owens is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Owens came to SAMHSA following service on Capitol Hill as health care policy advisor for Sen. Bob Corker (Tennessee) and Sen. David Vitter (Louisiana), and as global health policy advisor for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Previously he served in state government as Chief Deputy Director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions under then Gov. Bob McDonnell, at SAMHSA as Senior Advisor to the Administrator in the administration of then President George W. Bush, and as Deputy Commissioner, Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, under former Gov. James Gilmore Until 1997, Mr. Owens was a career Army officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel after serving in a variety of executive and staff assignments throughout the world, including Korea and the Persian Gulf and Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. He completed his military service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, supporting the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Mr. Owens is a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, and holds a Master of Science Degree from the University of Southern California.