Major Appointments by President Barack Obama and Members of His Administration:

• Adegbile, Debo: Attorney General for Civil Rights (not confirmed by the Senate)
• Alikhan, Arif: Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy Development
• Becker, Craig: National Labor Relations Board
• Berwick, Donald: Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Biden, Joseph: Vice President
• Bloom, Ron: Senior Counselor to the President for Manufacturing Policy
• Brennan, John: Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism; CIA Director
• Brooks, Rosa: Undersecretary for Defense Policy
• Browner, Carol: Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
• Burger, Anna: Economic Recovery Advisory Board
• Burwell, Sylvia Mathews: Director of the Office of Management and Budget; Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Chu, Steven: Secretary of Energy
• Clinton, Hillary: Secretary of State
• Cole, James: Deputy Attorney General
• Cutter, Stephanie: Assistant to the President for Special Projects; Deputy Senior Advisor
• Dunn, Anita: White House Communications Director (Resigned, November 2009)
• Emanuel, Rahm: Chief of Staff
• Freeman, Charles: Chair of the National Intelligence Council (Freeman withdrew from consideration in March 2009.)
• Gaspard, Patrick: Director of the Office of Political Affairs
• Geithner, Timothy: Secretary of the Treasury
• Gerard, Leo: Member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations
• Gordon, Philip: Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs; Special Assistant to the President; White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region
• Hagel, Chuck: Co-Chair of President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board; Secretary of Defense
• Hamilton, David: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge
• Holder, Eric: Attorney General
• Holdren, John: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
• Hurwitz, Andrew: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (Ninth Circuit)
• Jennings, Kevin: Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education in charge of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
• Johnsen, Dawn: Assistant Attorney General to the Office of Legal Counsel
• Jones, Van: Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
• Kagan, Elena: Solicitor General; Supreme Court Justice
• King, Bob: Member of Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
• Klain, Ronald: Ebola Response Coordinator (a.k.a. “Ebola Czar”)
• Koh, Harold: Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department
• Lloyd, Mark: Diversity Chief of the Federal Communications Commission
• Lynch, Loretta: U.S. Attorney; Attorney General
• McDonough, Denis: Chief of Staff
• Medina, Eliseo: National Latino Advisory Council
• Millett, Patricia: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• Mogahed, Dalia: Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
• Munoz, Cecilia: Director of Intergovernmental Affairs; Director of the Domestic Policy Council
• Napolitano, Janet: Secretary of Homeland Security
• Perez, Thomas: Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
• Pillard, Cornelia: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• Posner, Michael: Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
• Power, Samantha: Director for Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council
• Pritzker, Penny: Member of President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and President’s Council for Jobs and Competitiveness
• Rice, Susan: Ambassador to the United Nations
• Richardson, Bill: Secretary of Commerce (Richardson withdrew from consideration in January 2009.)
• Rosenthal, Hannah: Head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism
• Salazar, Ken: Secretary of the Interior
• Sebelius, Kathleen: Secretary of Health and Human Services
• Shora, Kareem: Member of Homeland Security Advisory Council
• Shora, Nawar: Senior Advisor in the Department of Homeland Security
• Solis, Hilda: Secretary of Labor
• Sotomayor, Sonia: Supreme Court Justice
• Sunstein, Cass: Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
• Sutley, Nancy: White House Council on Environmental Quality
• Tauscher, Ellen: Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
• Trumka, Richard: Member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
• Warren, Elizabeth: Special Assistant in charge of organizing and establishing a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• West, Tony: Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Division
• Wilkins, Robert: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• Zoi, Cathy: Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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Ship of Fools: Obama’s Intimates and Advisors
By Mac Fuller
October 11, 2009