Potential Biden WH Administration Officials SP PDF

Biden White House:
Potential Cabinet Nominations

and Senior Appointments
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.
October 21, 2020
Table of Contents
• 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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Notes
• 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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Notes
• 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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Notes
• 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
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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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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State Department
• 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.
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Other Senior Appointments:
State Department
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.
Heather Higginbottom • 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
Cam Kerry of Commerce during the Obama Administration.
• Previously Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
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Ambassador to the United Nations
• Pete Buttigieg
• Served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
• Served as an Army Officer and deployed to Afghanistan in
2014.
Pete Buttigieg • 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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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
Rep. Karen Bass woman to serve as Speaker in a state legislative body.
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Defense Department
From Left to Right: Michèle Flournoy, Frank Kendall, Christine Wormuth, Susan Rice, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Sen. Jack Reed
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Defense Department
• 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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Defense Department
• 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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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
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall 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.
Brian McKeon
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Department of Homeland Security
From Left to Right: Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco, Vanita Gupta, Julian Castro
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Department of Homeland Security
• Worked with President Clinton as part of the NSC where she oversaw African affairs and later worked for
• 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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Intelligence Community
From Left to Right: Susan Rice, Tom Donilon, Michael Morell, Avril Haines, Chris Inglis, Robert Cardillo
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• 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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• 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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Department of Justice
From Left to Right: Doug Jones, Sally Yates, Preet Bharara, Stacey Abrams, Merrick Garland,
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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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Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
• 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
Terrell McSweeny 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.
Jon Leibowitz
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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 28
• 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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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 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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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
From Left to Right: Andy Slavitt, Mandy Cohen, Andrea Palm
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• 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.
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Food and Drug Administration
• 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.
Josh Sharfstein
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Department of Education
From Left to Right: John King Jr., Jim Shelton, Rep. Alma Adams, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Joyce Beatty,
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Rep. Frederica Wilson, Linda Darling Hammond
• 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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• 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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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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Department of Transportation
From Left to Right: Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Beth Osborne, Eric Garcetti
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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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Department of Labor
From Left to Right: William Spriggs, Sharon Block, Edward Montgomery, Seth Harris
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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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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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Department of Commerce
From Left to Right: Jeff Zients, Tom Nides, Indra Nooyi, Virginia Rometty, Susan Helper
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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.
• 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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• 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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National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
From Left to Right: Joey Wender, Thomas Powers, Anna Gomez
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
• 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.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
• 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
Monica Medina 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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Department of Energy
From Left to Right: Jay Inslee, Jennifer Granholm, John Podesta, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Rep. Andy Levin
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• 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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• 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.
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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).
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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.
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Department of Interior
From Left to right: Sen. Tom Udall, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Rep. Deb Haaland, Michelle
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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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Department of Agriculture
From Left to Right: Heidi Heitkamp, Rep. Marcia Fudge, David Zuckerman
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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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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.
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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).
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Department of Veterans Affairs
From Left to Right: Pete Buttigieg, Chet Edwards, Jason Kander, Robert McDonald
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Department of Veterans Affairs
• Mayor Pete Buttigieg
• 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.
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Potential Senior White
House Appointments
Potential Senior Positions:
White House Chief of Staff
From Left to Right: Steve Ricchetti, Ron Klain, Chris Coons
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White House Chief of Staff
• 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.
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National Security Advisor
From Left to Right: Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, Jake Sullivan, Robert Malley
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National Security Advisor
• 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.
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White House Senior Advisor
• 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.
Cathy Russell
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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.
Heather Higginbottom
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Council of Economic Advisers
From Left to Right: Jared Bernstein, Heather Boushey, Jason Furman
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Council of Economic Advisers
• 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.
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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
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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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Domestic Policy Council
• 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.
Jake Sullivan
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White House Counsel
• Cynthia Hogan
• Currently works on the Biden campaign.
• Served as Counsel to Vice President Biden from
2009 to 2013
• A former Apple executive.
Cynthia Hogan
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Council on Environmental Quality
• Ali Zaidi
• Currently serves as Deputy Secretary for Energy and Environment
under Governor Cuomo.
• Served as OMB Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and
Ali Zaidi 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
• 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.
Ron Klain
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Other Potential Future Positions
White House Climate Change Czar
From Left to Right: Ali Zaidi, Dan Reicher, John Podesta
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White House Climate Change Czar
• 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.
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Special Envoy for Climate and the Environment
• 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.
John Kerry
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National Climate Council
From Left to Right: John Podesta, Todd Stern, Sue Biniaz
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National Climate Council
• John Podesta
• Current Chair and Counselor of CAP and was the Chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
• 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.
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Chief Technology Officer
• 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.
Andrew Yang
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United States Trade Representative
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Jeff Zients, Jayme White, Katherine Tai
• 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
• 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 Appointments
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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Potential Independent Agency Appointments:
• 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
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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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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
Richard Glick 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.
Allison Clements
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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
• 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.
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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
• 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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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• Rohit Chopra
• 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
Rohit Chopra 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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Consumer Product Safety Commission
From Left to Right: Elliot Kaye, Pamela Gilbert, Rachel Weintraub, Nancy Cowles
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
• 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.
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Peace Corps
• 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.
Rep. Joseph Kennedy
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• 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.
Rep. Kendra Horn
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Potential Democratic
Party Officials
Democratic National Committee
• Stacey Abrams
• Served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to
2017, serving as Minority Leader from 2011 to
Stacey Abrams 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
Pete Buttigieg • Served as an Army Officer and deployed to Afghanistan in 2014.
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Other Individuals up for
Consideration
Others Who May Be Considered for Positions
From Left to Right: Bruce Reed, Sen. Cory Booker, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Tom Steyer, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Brian Keane
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Others Who May Be Considered for Positions:
• 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.
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Others Who May Be Considered for Positions:
• 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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Potential Cabinet Nominations

These are individuals we have either seen reported or are rumored

Pete Buttigieg • Representative Karen Bass (D-CA-37)

• Representative Karen Bass (D-CA-37)

Under Secretary for Policy

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

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

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

• Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)

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

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

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

• Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA-45)

• Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA-4)

Rep. Joseph Kennedy

• Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK-5)

Rep. Kendra Horn

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