“We looked at both internal and external candidates, and we really did the interview process over a two-day period,” McCaw said. “The first two days of the search was really doing our due diligence, background checks and research, then we had two days of interviews, and today the announcement.”

“[I] really felt like of the opportunities that presented themselves, that when I really sat down and got by myself and thought about how this is somewhat in my mind a restart or a reboot,” Freeze said, “the best environment for my wife and kids and myself to do that in, it’s pretty clear that … the environment in this case is good for my family, is somewhere you’re embraced and people understand grace and celebrate you not only who you are but whose you are. That kind of made it in the lead pretty quick.”