Former Huntsville School Superintendent Casey Wardynski has been nominated as the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, the White House announced.

The nomination was first reported by InsideDefense.

The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs is charged with overseeing the civilian and military manpower, human resources, soldier records and reserve and active component force structure.

Efforts to reach Wardynski were unsuccessful.

Wardynski served as Huntsville School Superintendent from July 2011 to September 2016 when he resigned amid controversy over the system's dealings with a Huntsville-based private education firm, Pinnacle Schools. At the time of his resignation, Wardynski, a widower, disclosed he had a romantic relationship with the school's CEO, Karen Lee.

Wardynski most recently served as the CEO for FISH Technologies, a Texas-based entertainment technology company. Prior to that, he spent more than 30 years as an officer in the U.S. Army where he served as Director of the Army's Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis. It was while heading up the economic and manpower office that Wardynski directed the creation of the video game America's Army as a military recruitment tool. The game is still in use today.

After retiring from the military as a Colonel, Wardynski served as chief financial officer of the Aurora, Colorado school system.

Wardynski received his bachelor's degree at West Point and later earned a master's degree from Harvard University's JFK School of Government and a doctorate in policy analysis from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School.