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Biden White House: Potential Cabinet Nominations

and Senior Appointments

October 21, 2020

These are individuals we have either seen reported or are rumored to be in the mix for a cabinet nomination, senior appointment, or other roles in a potential Biden Administration. Please feel free to

reach out to us with specific staffing questions.We have long standing ties to Vice President Biden, his campaign

staff, members of the transition team, and a great many of the individuals listed in this document.

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• Notes: Slide 3-5• Potential Cabinet Agency Appointments: Slides 6-70• Potential Senior White House Appointments: Slides 71-95• Potential Independent Agency Appointments: Slides 96-112• Potential Democratic Party Officials: 113-114• Other Individuals up for Consideration: Slides 115-118

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• This document compiles all the names we have been hearing for cabinet agencies, independent agencies, senior White House staff, and other potential positions in a Biden Administration.

• While our list keeps growing, we have tried to limit the people included under each heading to just those who are likely to be serious contenders for each role, although there are certainly more people who are interested and potentially campaigning for positions.

• In some cases, we have specified candidates who might be in the running for the most senior job at an agency, such as a cabinet Secretary position, but acknowledge that some of these individuals might also accept a Deputy Secretary, Undersecretary, or similar role at another agency if someone else is appointed to the top job. Some folks, however, are likely to only be interested in the most senior slot.

• Generally, we expect a Biden Administration will be focused on achieving diversity in its most senior ranks. This means we are likely to see women, minorities, and individuals of different sexual orientations appointed to cabinet-level positions.

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• Additionally, we believe a Biden Administration would seek to incorporate geographic diversity and a vast range of experience into its hiring, which is why you will see former Democratic presidential candidates, governors, veteran policymakers, businesspeople, academics, and scientists included on our list.

• As you will see, we list several individuals who have previously worked for Vice President Biden or are involved in the Biden campaign. While a Biden transition team will look closely at a number of these institutionalists, it is also likely to face pressure to be inclusive of ideas and candidates from the more liberal wing of the Democratic party.

• Further, our list includes several members of Congress who may be considered for various positions in a Biden Administration. Aside from Members who may not return to Congress next year due to retirements or tight races, we are hesitant to think Democrats would give up any Senate seats. This is especially true for senators representing states where there is a Republican governor. We believe many senior Democratic Hill staffers might also be interested in serving in a Biden Administration.

• Traditionally, Democratic administrations have looked at certain types of people to fill specific positions. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are such large agencies, that we tend to see preference given to candidates with previous managerial experience.

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• At the Department of Energy (DOE), we have recently seen the Secretary role filled by someone with a scientific background, while the Deputy slot is filled by someone who has more of a defense background and works primarily on National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) issues.

• As you will see, there are long lists of contenders for positions at independent agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). As there are only a limited number of slots at these agencies, it is possible candidates who are not selected may be considered for other roles in the administration. For example, FTC candidates might also be contenders for the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust position at the Department of Justice (DOJ). Those in the running for an FCC commissioner slot could be looked at for other telecommunications positions, such as the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator at the Department of Commerce or Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

• Other positions, including many of the senior positions at the Department of Commerce, pose opportunities for candidates from the business world to join the new administration.

• Over the past several months, the Biden campaign has precluded registered lobbyists from engaging directly with members of the campaign staff working on policy. While there may be some waivers granted, we anticipate a Biden Administration will develop a strong ethics policy that may prohibit registered lobbyists from working for the administration in order to mitigate conflicts of interest.

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Potential Cabinet Agency Appointments

Potential Cabinet Nominations:State Department

From Left to Right: Susan Rice, Tony Blinken, Tom Donilon, Bill Burns, Nicholas Burns, Wendy Sherman, Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Chris Murphy

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Potential Cabinet Member Nominations:State Department• Ambassador Susan Rice

• Served as President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) from 2009 to 2017.

• Worked with President Bill Clinton as part of the National Security Council (NSC) where she oversaw African affairs and later worked for the Brookings Institution.

• Tony Blinken• Served as Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, as well as Assistant to the President and Principal

Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama.• Served as Staff Director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for six years.

• Tom Donilon• Served first as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor and later National Security

Advisor to President Obama for three years.• Served as Assistant Secretary of State and Chief of Staff at the State Department during the Clinton Administration.

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Potential Cabinet Member Nominations:State Department• Ambassador Bill Burns

• Currently President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.• Served as the Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama Administration from 2011 to 2014, as well as the Under

Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Previous positions include U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Jordan during the Clinton and Bush Administrations.

• Nicholas Burns• Served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008; U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2001 to

2005; U.S. Ambassador to Greece from 1997 to 2001; and State Department Spokesman from 1995 to 1997.• Worked for five years from 1990 to 1995 on the NSC, where he was Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia

Affairs and Special Assistant to President Clinton.

• Wendy Sherman• A founding partner of the Albright Stonebridge Group• Served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs during the Obama Administration; Counselor of the

Department of State under Secretary Madeline Albright; and Special Advisor to President Clinton and Policy Coordinator on North Korea.

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• Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)• Has served as the junior Senator from Delaware since 2010; Occupies Vice President Biden’s former Senate seat.• Sits on the Senate Appropriations, Foreign Relations Committee, Judiciary, Small Business &

Entrepreneurship Committee, and Ethics Committees.• Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Human Rights Caucus.

• Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)• Senator since 2013; Previously served as the Representative for Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District.• Member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees.

Potential Cabinet Member Nominations:State Department

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Other Senior Appointments:State Department

Heather Higginbottom

Cam Kerry

Under Secretary for Policy• Heather Higginbottom

• Currently serves as the head of the JPMorgan Chase Policy Center.• Served as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources from

2013 to 2017; Previously served as Counselor of the Department of State.• Worked as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

from 2011 until 2013.• Served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and

Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC) from 2009 to 2010 after serving as Policy Director of the Obama for America campaign.

Under Secretary for the Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment• Cam Kerry

• Currently a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab.

• Served as General Counsel and Acting Secretary of the Department of Commerce during the Obama Administration.

• Previously Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Ambassador to the United Nations

Pete Buttigieg

• Pete Buttigieg• Served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.• Served as an Army Officer and deployed to Afghanistan in

2014.

• Representative Karen Bass (D-CA-37)• Serves as the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)

and the Chairwoman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she is the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

• Was first elected a Member of the California State Assembly in 2004 and later became the first Black woman to serve as Speaker in a state legislative body.

Rep. Karen Bass

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:U.S. Agency for International Development

• Representative Karen Bass (D-CA-37)• Serves as the Chair of the CBC and the Chairwoman of

the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

• Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she is the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

• Was first elected a Member of the California State Assembly in 2004 and later became the first Black woman to serve as Speaker in a state legislative body.Rep. Karen Bass

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Defense Department

From Left to Right: Michèle Flournoy, Frank Kendall, Christine Wormuth, Susan Rice, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Jack Reed

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• Michèle Flournoy• Served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009 to 2012.• Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors and former Co-Founder and CEO of the Center for a New

American Security (CNAS).

• Frank Kendall• Served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) from 2012 to 2017.• Leader of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) efforts to increase the Department’s buying power and improve the

performance of the defense acquisition enterprise.

• Christine Wormuth• Served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2014 to 2016 and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for

Strategy, Plans, and Forces from 2012 to 2014.• Served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Defense at the NSC from 2010 to 2012, where

she was the primary liaison from the NSC to the Pentagon on defense issues.


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• Ambassador Susan Rice• Served as President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the U.N. from 2009 to 2017.• Worked with President Clinton as part of the NSC where she oversaw African affairs and later worked for

the Brookings Institution.

• Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)• Serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and served in the Reserve for 23 years before retiring from military

service in 2014 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.• Appointed in 2009 by President Obama to be Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

• Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)• Currently serves as Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.• Served in the 82nd Airborne Division as an Infantry Platoon Leader, a Company Commander, and a Battalion Staff

Officer, and later joined the faculty at West Point.


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Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

Brian McKeon

Other Senior Appointments: Defense Department

Deputy Secretary• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

• Served as the Deputy Secretary of Energy from 2014 to 2017.• Worked in the Obama Administration, first as the Senior Director for

European Affairs for the NSC from 2009 to 2013 and as White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control from 2013 to 2014.

Under Secretary for Policy• Brian McKeon

• Served as Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Acting Under Secretary for Policy from 2014 to 2017.

• Worked as Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff for the NSC and Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Homeland Security

From Left to Right: Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco, Vanita Gupta, Julian Castro

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Homeland Security• Ambassador Susan Rice

• Served as President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the U.N. from 2009 to 2017.• Worked with President Clinton as part of the NSC where she oversaw African affairs and later worked for

the Brookings Institution.

• Lisa Monaco• Served as President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor and Assistant to the

President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.• Spent 15 years at DOJ as a career federal prosecutor and in senior management positions, as well as at the Federal

Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

• Vanita Gupta• Previously served as Acting Assistant Attorney General and Head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division during the Obama

Administration.• Worked as Deputy Legal Director and the Director of the Center for Justice at the ACLU.

• Julian Castro• Was the Mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 2009 to 2014.• Served as President Obama's Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary from 2014 to 2017.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Intelligence Community

From Left to Right: Susan Rice, Tom Donilon, Michael Morell, Avril Haines, Chris Inglis, Robert Cardillo

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Intelligence Community• Ambassador Susan Rice

• Served as President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the U.N. from 2009 to 2017.• Worked with President Clinton as part of the NSC where she oversaw African affairs and later worked for the

Brookings Institution.• Tom Donilon

• Served first as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor and later National Security Advisor to President Obama.

• Served as Assistant Secretary of State and Chief of Staff at the State Department during the Clinton Administration.• Michael Morell

• Currently Senior Counselor to the Global Chairman of the Geo-Political Risk Practice at Beacon Global Strategies.• Was a career Intelligence Analyst, who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2010

to 2013 and twice as Acting Director, first in 2011 and then from 2012 to 2013.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Intelligence Community• Avril Haines

• Currently coordinating defense and foreign policy for the Biden transition team.• Served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, Deputy CIA Director, and Legal

Adviser to the NSC during the Obama Administration.• Chris Inglis

• Currently a Managing Director of Paladin Capital Group.• Began his career at the National Security Agency (NSA) as a Computer Scientist and later served as Deputy Director

of the NSA from 2006 to 2014.• Robert Cardillo

• Currently a Distinguished Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.• Most recently served as the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2014 to 2019;

Previously served as the Deputy Director for Intelligence Integration at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) from 2010 to 2014.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Justice

From Left to Right: Doug Jones, Sally Yates, Preet Bharara, Stacey Abrams, Merrick Garland,Jamie Gorelick, Tony West, Eric Garcetti, Jeh Johnson

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• Senator Doug Jones (D-AL)• Served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001 before moving into private practice.• Known for being a part of the Alabama Attorney General’s successful prosecution of a Ku Klux Klan member for the

16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.• Sally Yates

• Served as Deputy Attorney General under President Obama and briefly as Acting Attorney General under President Trump.

• Served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta’s U.S. Attorney's Office, having worked her way up beginning in 1994.• Preet Bharara

• Served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017, and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for five years prior to leading the Southern District.

• Prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and other offenses and reached historic settlements and fines with the four largest banks in the U.S.


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• Stacey Abrams• Served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as Minority Leader from 2011 to 2017;

Previously served as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Atlanta.• First woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and first African-American to lead in the House of

Representatives.

• Merrick Garland• Serves as U.S. Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997• Nominated by President Obama to the Supreme Court in 2016 after the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia.

• Jamie Gorelick• Served as Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton Administration and is a former member of the Defense Legal

Policy Board at DoD.• Served as the Vice Chair of the Task Force on the Audit, Inspection, and Investigation Components of DoD and as an

Assistant to the Secretary and Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Energy.


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• Tony West• Served as Associate Attorney General in DOJ's Civil Division under President Obama.• Accepted his first appointment to DOJ in 1993 as Special Assistant and then as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the

Northern District of California.

• Eric Garcetti• Currently Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013.• Served as an Intelligence Officer in the Navy Reserve and taught at the University of Southern California

and Occidental College.

• Jeh Johnson• Served as the Secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration from 2013 to 2017.• Previously served as the General Counsel of DoD from 2009 to 2012 and the Air Force from 1998 to 2001.


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Other Senior Appointments: Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

Terrell McSweeny

Jon Leibowitz

• Terrell McSweeny• Served as FTC Commissioner from 2014 to 2018.• Served as Chief Counsel for Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Relations

for DOJ's Antitrust Division from 2012 to 2014.• Served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor to the

Vice President from January 2009 until February 2012.• Served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director to Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and

as Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2005 to 2008.

• Jon Leibowitz• Served as the Chairman of the FTC during the Obama Administration from 2009

to 2013.• Previously served as Counsel to the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and Senate

Subcommittee on Terrorism and Technology.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of the Treasury

From Left to Right: Lael Brainard, Richard Cordray, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Roger Ferguson, Janet Yellen, Mellody Hobson, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Michael Bloomberg

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• Lael Brainard• Administrative Governor of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors since 2014.• Served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2010 to 2013.

• Richard Cordray• Served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2012 to 2017 and previously served as

Ohio's Attorney General, Solicitor General, and Treasurer.• Clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.

• Sarah Bloom Raskin• Served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and is a former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the

Treasury.• Served as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 2010 to 2014 and Commissioner of Financial Regulation for the State

of Maryland from 2007 to 2010.• Roger Ferguson

• Currently President and CEO of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) since 2008.• Served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System from 1996 to 2006; Served on

President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness as well as its predecessor, the Economic Recovery Advisory Board; Co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Long-Run Macro-Economic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population.


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• Janet Yellen• Currently a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Bookings Institution, as well as

an adviser to the Magellan Group.• Served as the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board from 2010 to 2014; Previously served as President and CEO of the

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010.

• Mellody Hobson• Currently the President and Co-CEO of Ariel Investments.• Previously served as Chairwoman of DreamWorks Animation, as well as the Head of the Economic Club of Chicago.

• Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)• Serves as the ranking Democrat on the Banking Committee’s Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee.• Served as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the oversight board

created in the aftermath of the financial crisis to protect taxpayers.

• Mayor Michael Bloomberg• Businessman, philanthropist, and former New York City Mayor who is the Co-Founder and Majority Owner of Bloomberg L.P.• Recently self-funded $935 million for his primary campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in which he won 61

delegates.


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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Health and Human Services

From Left to Right: Rep. Karen Bass, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Pete Buttigieg, Ezekiel Emanuel, Vivek Murthy, Jack Markell

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• Representative Karen Bass (D-CA-37)• Serves as the Chair of the CBC and the Chairwoman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and

Homeland Security.• Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she is the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Africa,

Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.• Was first elected a Member of the California State Assembly in 2004 and later became the first Black woman to

serve as Speaker in a state legislative body.• Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM)

• Represented New Mexico's 1st Congressional District from 2013 to 2019 and served on the House Budget and Agriculture Committees.

• Previously served as a Cabinet Secretary for three different New Mexico governors, including in roles where she oversaw the Department of Aging and Long-Term Services and the Department of Health.

• Pete Buttigieg• Served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.• Served as an Army Officer and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.


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• Ezekiel Emanuel• Currently serves as Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and is the Chair of the

Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.• Served as Special Advisor for Health Policy to the OMB Director from 2009 to 2011.

• Vivek Murthy• Served as Surgeon General from December 2014 to 2017.

• Jack Markell• Served as the Governor of Delaware from 2009 to 2017 and served three terms as the State Treasurer of Delaware

from 1999 to 2009.• Named to serve on the Executive Committee of the National Governors Association (NGA) in August 2013.


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From Left to Right: Andy Slavitt, Mandy Cohen, Andrea Palm

Potential Cabinet Nominations:Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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• Andy Slavitt• Served as Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2015 to 2017; Led

efforts to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under President Obama.• Previously worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs.

• Mandy Cohen• Currently an Adjunct Professor in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.• Previously served as the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and Chief

Operating Officer and Chief of Staff at CMS.

• Andrea Palm• Served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) under President Obama and as

Chief of Staff for HHS from 2013 to 2014.• Previously worked as a Senior Advisor at the DPC during the implementation and rollout of the ACA.

Potential Cabinet Nominations:Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Food and Drug Administration

Josh Sharfstein

• Josh Sharfstein• Currently the Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and

Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• Served as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2009 to 2011 and later as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2011 to 2014.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Education

From Left to Right: John King Jr., Jim Shelton, Rep. Alma Adams, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Joyce Beatty, Rep. Frederica Wilson, Linda Darling Hammond

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Education• John King Jr.

• Currently President & CEO of The Education Trust.• Served as Deputy Secretary and then Secretary of the Department of Education during the Obama Administration;

Began his career as a high school social studies teacher and middle school principal before serving as the New York State Education Commissioner.

• Jim Shelton• Currently Chief Investment and Impact Officer for Blue Meridian Partners.• Served as Deputy Secretary of Education from 2013 to 2014 and Assistant Deputy Secretary prior to that; Recently

led Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Education Division.

• Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC-12)• Has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2014; Previously served as a member of the North Carolina

General Assembly.• Serves on the House Agriculture, Education and Labor, and Financial Services Committees.

• Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)• Serves as the ranking Democrat on the Banking Committee’s Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection

Subcommittee.• Served as Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the oversight

board created in the aftermath of the financial crisis to protect taxpayers.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Education• Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH-3)

• Has represented Ohio's 3rd Congressional District since 2013; Serves on the House Financial Services Committee, where she chairs the Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee, as well as the Joint Economic Committee.

• Previously Senior Vice President for Outreach and Engagement at Ohio State University and a Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1999 to 2008.

• Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24)• Has represented Florida's 24th Congressional District since 2011; Serves on the House Education and

Labor Committee, where she chairs the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee, as well as the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

• Previously served on the Miami-Dade County School Board and in the Florida House of Representatives.

• Linda Darling Hammond• Currently serves as Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Founding President and

CEO of the Learning Policy Institute.• Served as Education Advisor to President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.• Has authored more than 25 books and 500 articles on education policy and practice; Began her career as a public-

school teacher.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Housing and Urban Development

From Left to Right: Rep. Karen Bass, Rep. Chuy Garcia, Anthony Williams, Eric Garcetti

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• Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA-37)• Serves as the Chair of the CBC and the Chairwoman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and

Homeland Security.• Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she is the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee

on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.• Was first elected a Member of the California State Assembly in 2004 and later became the first Black woman

to serve as Speaker in a state legislative body.

• Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-IL-4)• Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus who serves on the House Financial Services, Transportation and

Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Committees.• Worked at the Legal Assistance Foundation from 1977 to 1980; Served as Assistant Director of the Little Village

Neighborhood Housing Service until 1984; Elected as a Committeeman in the Cook County Democratic Party in 1984 as the city’s Deputy Water Commissioner.


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• Mayor Anthony Williams• Currently CEO of the Federal City Council; Served as Mayor of Washington, DC from 1999 to 2007.• Served as Executive Director of the Global Government Practice at the Corporate Executive Board in Arlington,

Virginia.

• Mayor Eric Garcetti• Currently Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013.• Served as an Intelligence Officer in the Navy Reserve and taught at the University of Southern California and

Occidental College.


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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Transportation

From Left to Right: Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Beth Osborne, Eric Garcetti

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Transportation• Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3)

• Serves as a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.• He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1972 at age 24 where he served in the state legislature for six years as a

Commissioner of public works and managed the city’s transportation functions, land-use planning and environmental services.

• Beth Osborne• Previously worked at DOT, where she served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy and the

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy. • Worked for Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) as an advisor for transportation, trade and labor policy, as well as the Policy

Director for Smart Growth America and the Legislative Director for environmental policy at the Southern Governors’ Association. She currently serves as the Director of Transportation for America.

• Mayor Eric Garcetti• Currently serves as the Mayor of Los Angeles since 2013.• Served as an Intelligence Officer in the Navy Reserve and taught at the University of Southern California

and Occidental College.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Labor

From Left to Right: William Spriggs, Sharon Block, Edward Montgomery, Seth Harris

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Potential Cabinet Nominations: Department of Labor• William Spriggs

• Currently Chief Economist for the AFL–CIO and Professor of Economics at Howard University.• Served as Assistant Secretary of Policy at the Department of Labor (DOL) during the Obama Administration.

• Sharon Block• Currently Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.• Previously served as Head of the Policy Office at DOL; Senior Counselor to Secretary of Labor Tom Perez; and Senior

Labor and Employment Counsel to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee under Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).

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Potential Cabinet Nominations: Department of Labor• Edward Montgomery

• Currently President of Western Michigan University since 2017.• Served on President Obama's Auto Task Force and led the inter-agency White House Council for Auto

Communities and Workers; Previously served as Chief Economist, Counselor, Assistant Secretary of Labor, and Deputy Secretary of Labor during the Clinton Administration.

• Seth Harris• Currently a Visiting Professor at Cornell’s Institute for Public Affairs and practicing law in D.C.• Served as Deputy Secretary of Labor and Acting Secretary of Labor in 2013.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Commerce

From Left to Right: Jeff Zients, Tom Nides, Indra Nooyi, Virginia Rometty, Susan Helper

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Commerce• Jeff Zients

• Served as Director of the NEC from 2014 to 2017 and as Deputy OMB Director from 2009 to 2013.• Credited within the Obama Administration for fixing the issues with healthcare.gov.

• Tom Nides• Currently the Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley. • Previously served as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources from 2011 to 2013.

• Indra Nooyi• Named Co-Director of the Connecticut Economic Resource Center in 2019 and is drafting the state’s new economic

development strategy; Represents Connecticut on the six-state working group planning for the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

• Served as Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Commerce• Virginia Rometty

• Currently serves as Executive Chairman of IBM; Previously served as Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company.

• Joined IBM in 1981 as a Systems Engineer and eventually led IBM’s transition to a data company.

• Susan Helper• Currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Nonresident Senior Fellow

at the Brookings Institution.• Served as Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2012 to 2013 and Chief

Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2013 to 2015.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:National Telecommunications and Information Administration,

Department of Commerce

From Left to Right: Joey Wender, Thomas Powers, Anna Gomez

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• Joey Wender• Currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor on telecommunications issues for Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), a position he

has held for the last seven years.• Previously served as Sen. Markey’s Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives.

• Thomas Powers• Served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications in the White House from 2011 to 2014.• Previously served as Chief of Staff for NTIA from 2009 to 2011.

• Anna Gomez• Previously Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information for NTIA at the Department of

Commerce.• Served for 12 years in various positions at the FCC, including as Senior Legal Advisor to the Chairman.

Potential Cabinet Nominations:National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

Department of Commerce

Monica Medina

• Monica Medina• Previously served as Deputy Director of the Environment Program at the

Walton Family Foundation and Senior Director of Ocean Policy at the National Geographic Society.

• Served as Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2009 to 2013 and as NOAA General Counsel from 1997 to 1999.

• Sandra Whitehouse• Currently works as a consultant with more than 20 years' experience as

an ocean policy advisor to multiple organizations and institutions.• Holds a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Graduate School of

Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.• Presently sits on The Advisory Board for the Graduate School Of

Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

Sandra Whitehouse

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Energy

From Left to Right: Jay Inslee, Jennifer Granholm, John Podesta, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Rep. Andy Levin

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Energy• Governor Jay Inslee (D-WA)

• Serves as Governor of Washington since 2013; Ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary.• Served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2012.

• Jennifer Granholm• Former Attorney General from 1999 to 2003 and Governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011.• Member of President Obama’s presidential transition team in 2008 and 2009.

• John Podesta• Current Chair and Counselor of the Center for American Progress (CAP) and was the Chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016

presidential campaign.• Served as Counselor to President Obama 2014 and Chief of Staff to President Clinton from 1998 to 2001.

• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall• Served as the Deputy Secretary of Energy in the Obama Administration from 2014 to 2017.• Worked in the Obama Administration, first as the Senior Director for European Affairs for the NSC from 2009 to 2013 and as White

House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control from 2013 to 2014.

• Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI-9)• Has represented Michigan's 9th Congressional District since 2019; Serves on the House Education and Labor and Foreign Affairs

Committees.• Served as Director of the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth from 2010 to 2011.

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Other Senior Appointments: Department of Energy

From Left to Right: Arun Majumdar, Dan Reicher, Dan Arvizu, Dennis McGinn, Cathy Zoi, Ali Zaidi, Richard Kauffman, Kerry Duggan

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• Arun Majumdar• Currently Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University.• Served as the Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from 2009 to 2012 and

as Acting Under Secretary of Energy from 2011 to 2012.• Dan Reicher

• Founding Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University and former Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.

• Served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) during the Clinton Administration.

• Dan Arvizu• Serves as Director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Department of Energy’s primary

laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and development.• Appointed by President George W. Bush for a six-year term on the National Science Board (NSB), during which he

was elected NSB Chairman; Reappointed to the NSB by President Barack Obama for a second six-year term.

Other Senior Appointments: Department of Energy

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• Dennis McGinn• Served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment from 2013 until 2017.• Served on active duty in the Navy for 35 years as a naval aviator, test pilot, aircraft carrier commanding officer, and

national security strategist.

• Cathy Zoi• Served in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary and Acting Under-Secretary at the Department of Energy

(DOE).• Served as Founding CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, established and chaired by Vice President Al Gore;

Served as Chief of Staff for Environmental Policy in the Clinton White House; Pioneered the Energy Star program during her service at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Other Senior Appointments:Department of Energy

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• Ali Zaidi• Currently serves as Deputy Secretary for Energy and Environment under New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.• Served in the Obama Administration as OMB Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science at the

from 2014 to 2017; White House DPC Deputy Director for Energy Policy from 2011 to 2014; and Policy Aide to Energy Secretary Steven Chu from 2009 to 2011.

• Richard Kauffman• Served from 2013 to 2020 as Chairman of Energy and Finance for Governor Cuomo.• Served as Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Steven Chu from 2011 to 2013.

• Kerry Duggan• Served as a Member of the Biden-Sanders Unity Climate Change Task Force and former Deputy Director for Policy to

Vice President Biden from 2016 to 2017.• Founder of a sustainability and strategy consulting firm; Formerly the Deputy Director of the White House Detroit

Federal Working Group from 2014 to 2017.

Other Senior Appointments:Department of Energy

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Interior

From Left to right: Sen. Tom Udall, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Rep. Deb Haaland, Michelle Lujan Grisham, Fran Ulmer, Sen. Martin Heinrich, Steve Bullock

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• Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM)• Has served in the U.S. Senate since 2009 and will be retiring at the end of the 116th Congress; Serves on the

Senate Appropriations Committee.• Served as Attorney General of New Mexico from 1991 to 1999.

• Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ-3)• Has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2002; Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee.• Previously served as a Member of the Tucson Unified School District board from 1974 to 1986 and as a member of the Pima

County Board of Supervisors from 1989 to 2002.

• Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM-1)• A freshman Member who serves on the House Natural Resources and Armed Services Committees; One of the first Native

American women elected to Congress.• Previously served as New Mexico’s Vote Director for Native Americans during President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.

• Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM)• Represented New Mexico's 1st Congressional District from 2013 to 2019 and served on the House Budget and Agriculture

Committees.• Previously served as a Cabinet Secretary for three different New Mexico governors, including in roles where she oversaw the

Department of Aging and Long-Term Services and the Department of Health.


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• Fran Ulmer• Appointed by President Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore

Drilling.• Served as Special Advisor to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on arctic issues from 2014 to 2017 and as Lieutenant

Governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002.

• Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM)• Has served as the junior senator from New Mexico since 2012; Serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources,

Armed Services, and Intelligence Committees, as well as the Joint Economic Committee.• Represented New Mexico’s First Congressional District from 2009 to 2013; Previously served as Executive Director of

the Cottonwood Gulch Foundation from 1996 to 2001.

• Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT)• Currently serves as Governor of Montana since 2013 and is running for Senate; Is likely to only be considered for this

position if he loses his Senate race.• Served as Montana Attorney General from 2008 to 2013.


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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Agriculture

From Left to Right: Heidi Heitkamp, Rep. Marcia Fudge, David Zuckerman

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Agriculture• Heidi Heitkamp

• Represented North Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019; Was the first woman elected to the Senate from North Dakota.

• Served as North Dakota Attorney General from 1992 to 2000 and as State Tax Commissioner from 1986 to 1992.

• Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH-11)• Has represented Ohio's 11th Congressional District since 2008; Serves on the House Agriculture, Education and

Labor, and Administration Committees.• Previously served as Mayor of Warrensville Heights from 2000 to 2008.

• Lt. Governor David Zuckerman • Currently serves as Lieutenant Governor of Vermont since 2017; Actively running for Governor of Vermont and

only likely to be considered for this position if he loses this race.• Previously served in Vermont House of Representatives from 1997 to 2011 and Vermont state Senate from 2013

to 2017.

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Environmental Protection Agency

From Left to Right: Jay Inslee, Mary Nichols, Christine Gregoire, Katie McGinty

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• Governor Jay Inslee• Serves as Governor of Washington since 2013; Ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary.• Served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2012.

• Mary Nichols• Currently serves as Chair of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), where she occupies the attorney seat; Has

served on the Board from 1975 to 1982 and from 2007 to present.• Previously served as California Secretary for Natural Resources from 1999 to 2003; Senior Staff Attorney for the

Natural Resources Defense Council; Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation during the Clinton Administration; and Head of the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.

• Christine Gregoire• Fall Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School since 2014.• Served as Governor of Washington from 2005 to 2013.

• Katie McGinty• Served as an Environmental Advisor to Vice President Gore and President Clinton.• Served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Governor Ed Rendell.

Potential Cabinet Nominations:Environmental Protection Agency

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Other Senior Appointments:Environmental Protection Agency

From Left to Right: Colin O’Mara, Heather McTeer Toney, Heather Zichal

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• Colin O’Mara • Currently serves as President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation.• Former Cabinet Secretary of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control from 2009

to 2014.

• Heather McTeer Toney• Currently serves as National Field Director for Moms Clean Air Force.• Former Regional Administrator of the EPA for the Southeast Region from 2014 to 2017 and mayor of Greenville,

Mississippi from 2004 to 2011.

• Heather Zichal• Served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change to President Obama.• Previously served as Policy Director to the Obama Campaign, where she helped craft the 2008 energy platform.• Worked as Legislative Director to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) after managing energy and environmental issues on his

2004 Presidential campaign; Served as Legislative Director to Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and U.S. Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ).

Other Senior Appointments:Environmental Protection Agency

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Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Veterans Affairs

From Left to Right: Pete Buttigieg, Chet Edwards, Jason Kander, Robert McDonald

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• Mayor Pete Buttigieg• Served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.• Served as an Army Officer and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.

• Chet Edwards• Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 2011.• Founder of Edwards, Davis Stover & Associates, LLC where he consults on military and veterans' issues.

• Jason Kander• Former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer in Afghanistan; Ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2016 against Sen. Roy Blunt (R-

MO).• Served as a Missouri State Representative from 2009 to 2013 and Missouri Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017.

• Robert McDonald• Served as Secretary of Veterans' Affairs from 2014 to 2017.• Served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Procter & Gamble from 1980 to 2013.

Potential Cabinet Nominations:Department of Veterans Affairs

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Potential Senior Positions:White House Chief of Staff

From Left to Right: Steve Ricchetti, Ron Klain, Chris Coons

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• Steve Ricchetti• Currently Chairman of the Biden campaign.• Served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden from 2013 to 2017.• Worked as Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs from 1993 to 1996 and Deputy White House Chief

of Staff from 1998 to 2001 .

• Ron Klain• Appointed by President Obama as Ebola Response Coordinator from 2014 to 2015.• Served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Gore from 1995 to 1999 and Vice President Biden from 2009 to 2011.

• Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)• Has served as the junior Senator from Delaware since 2010; Occupies Vice President Biden’s former Senate seat.• Sits on the Senate Appropriations, Foreign Relations Committee, Judiciary, Small Business

& Entrepreneurship Committee, and Ethics Committees.• Founder and Co-Chair of the Senate Human Rights Caucus.

Potential Senior Positions:White House Chief of Staff

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Potential Senior Positions:National Security Advisor

From Left to Right: Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, Jake Sullivan, Robert Malley

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• Tony Blinken• Served as Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, as well as Assistant to the President

and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama.• Served as Staff Director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for six years.

• Avril Haines• Currently coordinating defense and foreign policy for the Biden transition team.• Served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, Deputy CIA

Director, and Legal Adviser to the NSC during the Obama Administration.• Jake Sullivan

• Served as National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden from 2013 to 2014 and Director of Policy Planning at the State Department from 2011 to 2013.

• Former senior policy advisor to Clinton’s 2016 campaign and senior advisor to the U.S. Government for the Iran nuclear negotiations.

• Robert Malley• Currently serves as President and CEO of the International Crisis Group.• Previously served on the NSC from 2014 to 2017; Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger

from 1996 to 1998; and the Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affairs at the NSC from 1994 to 1996.

Potential Senior Positions:National Security Advisor

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Potential Senior Positions:White House Senior Advisor

Cathy Russell

• Cathy Russell• Served as Ambassador-at-Large for Global

Women's Issues from 2013 to 2017.• Worked as Chief of Staff to Second Lady Jill Biden

from 2009 to 2013.

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Potential Senior Positions:Office of Management & Budget• Heather Higginbottom

• Currently serves as the head of the JPMorgan Chase Policy Center.

• Served as Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources from 2013 to 2017; Previously served as Counselor of the Department of State.

• Worked as Deputy Director of OMB from 2011 until 2013.

• Served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the DPC from 2009 to 2010 after serving as Policy Director of the Obama for America campaign.

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Potential Senior Positions:Council of Economic Advisers

From Left to Right: Jared Bernstein, Heather Boushey, Jason Furman

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• Jared Bernstein • Currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.• Served as Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to Vice President Biden from 2009 to 2011.

• Heather Boushey• Currently serves as President and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and is advising the Biden

campaign on the economy.• Previously served as an Economist at CAP and the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee.

• Jason Furman • Currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.• Served as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under from 2013 to 2017.

Potential Senior Positions:Council of Economic Advisers

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Potential Senior Positions:National Economic Council

From Left to Right: Lael Brainard, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Jeff Zients, Larry Summers

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• Lael Brainard• Administrative Governor of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors since 2014.• Served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2010 to 2013.

• Sarah Bloom Raskin• Served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and is a former U.S. Deputy Secretary

of the Treasury.• Was a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 2010 to 2014 and served as the Commissioner of Financial

Regulation for the State of Maryland from 2007 to 2010.

• Jeff Zients• Served as Director of the NEC from 2014 to 2017 and as Deputy OMB Director from 2009 to 2013.• Credited within the Obama Administration for fixing the issues with healthcare.gov.


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• Larry Summers• Served as Director of the NEC from 2009 to 2011 and President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006.• Previously served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001; Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1995 to

1999; and Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 1993 to 1995.


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Potential Senior Positions:Domestic Policy Council

Jake Sullivan

• Jake Sullivan• Served as National Security Advisor to Vice

President Biden from 2013 to 2014 and Director of Policy Planning at the State Depatment from 2011 to 2013.

• Former senior policy advisor to Clinton’s 2016 campaign and senior advisor to the U.S. Government for the Iran nuclear negotiations.

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Potential Senior Positions:White House Counsel

Cynthia Hogan

• Cynthia Hogan• Currently works on the Biden campaign.• Served as Counsel to Vice President Biden from

2009 to 2013• A former Apple executive.

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Potential Senior Positions:Council on Environmental Quality

Ali Zaidi

Dan Reicher

• Ali Zaidi• Currently serves as Deputy Secretary for Energy and Environment

under Governor Cuomo.• Served as OMB Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and

Science from 2014 to 2017; White House DPC Deputy Director for Energy Policy from 2011 to 2014; and Policy Aide to Energy Secretary Steven Chu from 2009 to 2011.

• Dan Reicher• Founding Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy

Policy and Finance at Stanford University and former Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.

• Served as Assistant Secretary of EERE during the Clinton Administration.

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Other Potential Future Positions:COVID-19 Czar

Ron Klain

• Ron Klain• Appointed by President Obama as Ebola Response

Coordinator from 2014 to 2015.• Served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Gore from

1995 to 1999 and Vice President Biden from 2009 to 2011.

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Other Potential Future PositionsWhite House Climate Change Czar

From Left to Right: Ali Zaidi, Dan Reicher, John Podesta

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• Ali Zaidi• Currently serves as Deputy Secretary for Energy and Environment under Governor Cuomo.• Served as OMB Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science at the from 2014 to 2017; White House

DPC Deputy Director for Energy Policy from 2011 to 2014; and Policy Aide to Energy Secretary Steven Chu from 2009 to 2011.

• Dan Reicher• Founding Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University

and former Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.• Served as Assistant Secretary of EERE during the Clinton Administration.

• John Podesta• Current Chair and Counselor of CAP and was the Chairman of Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.• Served as Counselor to President Obama 2014 and Chief of Staff to President Clinton from 1998 to 2001.

Other Potential Future PositionsWhite House Climate Change Czar

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Other Potential Future Positions:Special Envoy for Climate and the Environment

John Kerry

• John Kerry• Served as Secretary of State under President

Obama.• Represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate

from 1985 to 2013.• Democratic nominee for President in the 2004

election against President Bush.

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Other Potential Future PositionsNational Climate Council

From Left to Right: John Podesta, Todd Stern, Sue Biniaz

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• John Podesta• Current Chair and Counselor of CAP and was the Chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.• Served as Counselor to President Obama 2014 and Chief of Staff to President Clinton from 1998 to 2001.

• Todd Stern• Current Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change.• Served from 2009 to 2016 as Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department, serving as President

Obama’s chief climate negotiator and leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement.

• Sue Biniaz• Currently serves as Senior Fellow for Climate Change at the U.N. Foundation.• Previously served as Lead Climate Lawyer for the U.S. State Department and Principal Negotiator for the 2015 Paris

Climate Agreement.

Other Potential Future Positions:National Climate Council

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Potential Senior Positions:Chief Technology Officer

Andrew Yang

• Andrew Yang• Ran as a candidate in the 2020

Democratic presidential primary.• Founded Venture for America (VFA) in 2011,

a nonprofit organization focused on creating jobs in cities struggling to recover from the Great Recession.

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Potential Senior Positions:United States Trade Representative

From Left to Right: Jennifer Hillman, Miriam Sapiro, Thea Lee, Mike Wessel, Jeff Zients, Jayme White, Katherine Tai

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• Jennifer Hillman• Recently completed her term on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body.• Previously served for nine years as a commissioner at the International Trade Commission (ITC).

• Miriam Sapiro• Served as the Deputy Trade Representative during the Obama Administration and became Acting Trade

Representative in 2013.• Previously worked as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the State Department and the NSC under

Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.

• Thea Lee• Currently serves as President of the Economic Policy Institute.• Previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff at the AFL-CIO.

• Mike Wessel• Currently serves as an original Member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.• Previously served on the staff of former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO) for more than two

decades.


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• Jeff Zients • Served as Director of the NEC from 2014 to 2017 and as Deputy OMB Director from 2009 to 2013.• Credited within the Obama Administration for fixing the issues with healthcare.gov.

• Jayme White• Currently serves as Chief Advisor on International Competitiveness and Innovation for the Senate Finance Committee

since 2014.• Previously served as Legislative Director for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA-7).

• Katherine Tai• Currently serves as the Chief Trade Counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee• Previously served at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) as Chief Counsel for China Enforcement from

2011 to 2014 and Associate General Counsel from 2007 to 2011.


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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Federal Communications Commission

From Left to Right: Jessica Rosenworcel, Geoffrey Starks, Mignon Clyburn, Larry Strickling, Anna Gomez, Edward Smith,Travis LeBlanc, Catherine Sandoval, Blair Levin, John Branscome, Nicol Turner Lee, Thomas Powers

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• Jessica Rosenworcel• Currently serves as FCC Commissioner.• Previously served as Senior Communications Counsel for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and

Transportation, under the leadership of Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Daniel Inouye (D-HI).• Geoffrey Starks

• Currently serves as FCC Commissioner.• Previously worked in the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and at DOJ as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Attorney General

on domestic and international law enforcement matters.

• Mignon Clyburn• Served as FCC Commissioner from 2009 to 2018, including as Acting Chair.

• Larry Strickling• Currently works on policy for the Biden Campaign and previously served as Policy Coordinator for President Obama's

2008 campaign.• Previously served as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator; Chief of the

FCC's Common Carrier Bureau; and Associate General Counsel and Chief of the FCC's Competition Division

Potential Independent Agency Appointments:Federal Communications Commission

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• Anna Gomez• Previously Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information for NTIA at the Department

of Commerce.• Served for 12 years in various positions at the FCC, including as Senior Legal Advisor to the Chairman.

• Edward Smith• Served at the FCC as Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel of the Incentive Auction Task Force and at NTIA as Program

Director of the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program.• Worked on President Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and was named Deputy General Counsel of the

Presidential Inaugural Committee.• Travis LeBlanc

• Served as Chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau during the Obama Administration.• Previously worked as a Senior Adviser to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and in DOJ's Office of Legal

Counsel.


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• Catherine Sandoval• Currently a Commissioner at the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and a Law Professor at the Santa Clara

University School of Law.• Appointed by the FCC to the Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services; Served as

Co-Vice Chair of the Telecommunications Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

• Blair Levin• Served at the FCC as the Executive Director of the National Broadband Plan from 2009 to 2010.• Previously co-chaired the technology, innovation, and government reform transition team for President Obama;

Served as Chief of Staff to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt from 1993 to 1997.


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• John Branscome• Currently Senior Counsel to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.• Previously served at the FCC as Deputy Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau; Chief of the FCC's Spectrum and

Competition Policy Division; Legal Advisor to Commissioners Michael Copps and Kathleen Abernathy; and Legal Advisor to the Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.

• Nicol Turner Lee• Currently Senior Fellow in Governance Studies and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings

Institution.• Previously served as Vice President and Chief Research and Policy Officer at the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and

Internet Council.

• Thomas Powers• Served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications in the White House from 2011 to 2014.• Previously served as Chief of Staff for NTIA from 2009 to 2011.


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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

• Richard Glick• Currently serves as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Commissioner.• Served as General Counsel for Democrats on the Senate Energy and

Natural Resources Committee, serving as a senior policy advisor on numerous issues including electricity and renewable energy.

• Allison Clements• Currently pending confirmation to serve as a FERC commissioner and

serves as Policy Advisor to the Energy Foundation.• Previously worked as Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense

Council from 2011 to 2016 and Associate at Chadbourne and Parke LLP from 2006 to 2008.

Richard Glick

Allison Clements

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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Federal Trade Commission

From Left to Right: Rebecca Slaughter, Rohit Chopra, Terrell McSweeny, Richard Cordray, Tim Wu, Michael Kades,Louisa Terrell, Nicol Turner Lee, Travis LeBlanc, Julie Brill, Karl Racine, Phil Weiser

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• Rebecca Kelly Slaughter• Currently serves as FTC Commissioner.• Previously Served as Counsel and then Chief Counsel to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

• Rohit Chopra• Currently serves as FTC Commissioner.• Previously served as Assistant Director of the CFPB from 2010 to 2015; Appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury as

the agency's first Student Loan Ombudsman, established by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

• Terrell McSweeny• Served as FTC Commissioner from 2014 to 2018.• Served as Chief Counsel for Competition Policy and Intergovernmental Relations for DOJ's Antitrust Division from

2012 to 2014.• Served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President from January 2009

until February 2012.• Served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director to Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) and as Counsel on the Senate Judiciary

Committee from 2005 to 2008.

Potential Independent Agency Appointments:Federal Trade Commission

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• Richard Cordroy• Served as the first Director of the CFPB from 2012 to 2017.• Served as Ohio's Attorney General, Solicitor General, and Treasurer.

• Tim Wu• Served as Senior Advisor to the FTC from 2011 to 2012 and as Senior Enforcement Counsel at the New York Office of

the Attorney General from 2015 to 2016.• Joined the NEC in the Obama White House to work on competition policy.

• Michael Kades• Serves as Director of Markets and Competition Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.• Served as Antitrust Counsel for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee

on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights.• Served as Attorney Advisor (Antitrust) for the FTC from 2006 to 2012 and Deputy Chief Trial Counsel from 2012 to

2017.


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• Louisa Terrell• Currently serves as Deputy General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs at McKinsey and Company since 2019.• Previously worked as Counselor to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler 2015 to 2017 and Executive Director of the Biden

Foundation from 2017 to 2019.

• Nicol Turner Lee• Currently Senior Fellow in Governance Studies and Director of the Center for Technology Innovation at

the Brookings Institution.• Previously served as Vice President and Chief Research and Policy Officer at the Multicultural Media,

Telecom, and Internet Council.

• Travis LeBlanc• Served as Chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau during the Obama Administration.• Previously worked as a Senior Adviser to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and in DOJ's Office of

Legal Counsel.


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• Julie Brill• Currently serves as Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Privacy and Regulatory Affairs

at Microsoft.• Served as FTC Commissioner from 2010to 2016.

• Karl Racine• Currently serves as Washington, DC Attorney General since 2015.• Previously served as Associate White House Counsel under President Clinton and Staff Attorney at the Public

Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

• Phil Weiser• Currently served as Colorado Attorney General since 2019.• Previously served as Dean of the University of Colorado Law School from 2011 to 2016; Deputy Assistant Attorney

General in DOJ's Antitrust Division from 2009 to 2010; and Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation to the NEC Director from 2010 to 2011.


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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Rohit Chopra

• Rohit Chopra• Currently serves as FTC Commissioner.• Previously served as Assistant Director of the CFPB from 2010 to

2015; Appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury as the agency's first Student Loan Ombudsman, established by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

• Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA-45)• Freshman Member of the House; Serves on the House Financial

Services and Oversight and Reform Committees.• Previously served as California State Independent Monitor of

Banks from 2012 to 2019, a position she was appointed to by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris.

Rep. Katie Porter

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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Consumer Product Safety Commission

From Left to Right: Elliot Kaye, Pamela Gilbert, Rachel Weintraub, Nancy Cowles

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• Elliot Kaye• Served as the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) Executive Director from 2013 until his confirmation as

Chairman in 2017; His term expired in October 2020.• Previously served at the CPSC as Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel to former Chairman Inez Moore Tenenbaum in 2013;

Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Chairman from 2012 to 2013; and as Senior Counsel to the Chairman from 2010 to 2012.

• Pamela Gilbert• Currently serves on the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) Board.• Previously served as Executive Director of the CPSC from 1995 to 2001; Chief Operating Officer (COO) of M&R Strategic

Services; and Board Member of OMB Watch and the Center for Effective Government.

• Rachel Weintraub• Serves as Legislative Director and General Counsel for Consumer Federation of America (CFA).• Previously worked as Director of Product Safety at CFA, where she has held positions since 2002.

• Nancy Cowles• Currently Executive Director of Kids in Danger (KID), which advocates for product safety.• Previously served as Executive Director of the Coalition for Consumer Rights.

Potential Independent Agency Appointments:Consumer Product Safety Commission

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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Peace Corps

Rep. Joseph Kennedy

• Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA-4)• Has represented Massachusetts 4th Congressional

District since 2013; Ran an unsuccessful primary bid to unseat Sen. Markey this year.

• Previously worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

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• Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK-5)• Freshman Member of Congress; Serves on the House

Science, Space, and Technology and Armed Services Committees.

• Former Manager of Government Affairs and Manager of Communication and Media Relations at the Space Foundation.

Potential Independent Agency Appointments:National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Rep. Kendra Horn

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Potential Independent Agency Appointment:Democratic National Committee

Stacey Abrams

Pete Buttigieg

• Stacey Abrams• Served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to

2017, serving as Minority Leader from 2011 to 2017; Previously served as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Atlanta.

• First woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and first African-American to lead in the House of Representatives.

• Pete Buttigieg• Served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.• Served as an Army Officer and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.

Other Individuals up for Consideration

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From Left to Right: Bruce Reed, Sen. Cory Booker, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Tom Steyer, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Brian Keane

Others Who May Be Considered for Positions

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• Bruce Reed• Served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden in the Obama White House.• Previously served as Chief Speechwriter for Sen. Al Gore (D-TN); Policy Director for Governor Bill Clinton at the

Democratic Leadership Council; and Deputy Campaign Manager for Policy for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign.

• Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)• Has served as the junior senator from New Jersey since 2013; Serves on the Senate Judiciary, Foreign Relations,

Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Small Business Committees. ,• Previously served as Mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013 and as a Member of the Newark Municipal Council from

the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.

• Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms• Currently serves as Mayor of Atlanta since 2018.• Previously served as a Member of the Atlanta City Council from 2010 to 2018.

Others Who May Be Considered for Positions:

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• Tom Steyer• Founder and former Co-Senior-Managing-Partner of Farallon Capital and Co-Founder of One California Bank, an

Oakland-based community development bank.• Founder of NextGen America, a nonprofit organization that supports progressive positions on climate change,

immigration, health care, and education.

• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)• Has represented Minnesota in the U.S. Senate since 2007; Serves on the Senate Judiciary, Commerce, and

Agriculture Committees and as Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee.• Previously served as Hennepin County Attorney.

• Brian Keane• Has served as President and Founder of SmartPower since 2002. • Was named 2017’s CEO of the Year and is also a former Presidential campaign advisor and congressional aide.

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