Key Obama Administration Appointees
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
Additional Resources:
Ship of Fools: Obama’s Intimates and Advisors
By Mac Fuller
October 11, 2009