President Barack Obama will nominate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to be Secretary of State on Friday, according to reports in The New York Times and Associated Press.
The move has been anticipated since U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration for the position last week.
Kerry will succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Clinton is currently recovering from a stomach virus that caused her to fall and suffer a concussion last week.
Rice came under increased scrutiny from Republicans because of her appearances on Sunday talk shows after the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, when she suggested that the attacks were a spontaneous demonstration in response to an obscure anti-Muslim YouTube video. That turned out to be false.