A D.C. Council committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Millicent Williams, Mayor Adrian Fenty’s nominee to replace Darrell Darnell at the head of the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Nikita Stewart reports in the Washington Post. Williams, who still needs to be approved by the entire council, had been thought to be underqualified for the job, but council members were apparently “swayed by Williams’s enthusiasm and the overwhelming support she drew at her confirmation hearing.” Williams is still in the process of attempting to gain the security clearances she will need before she could effectively head the agency. She was previously president of the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp. and executive director of Serve D.C.