Part I, State through Defense
Part II, Justice through HHS
As President Obama and his department and agency heads have nominated and appointed officials over the last few months, I have been compiling them into a single document. Other people can probably make more use of this document than I can, and can certainly format it more prettily than I have. The only claim to originality I make is that I have never found a list this complete -- a sort of proto-Plum Book of the Obama Administration -- anywhere on the internet, and I have searched for it. Indeed, it was the Plum Book that served as my inspiration. At any rate, with my second daughter, six weeks old, quite rightly demanding a healthy share of our attention, and with plenty of work to do at my solo law practice, I need to pass it on to you all to do with as you will.
EDIT: Because the entire list appears, at least in preview, to exceed the number of lines possible to post in a single diary, I will have to post this over multiple days. In Part III, we'll look at the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans' Affairs, and Homeland Security. Also, this was beautifully formatted in Word but I am having a hard time getting it to look nice here. I didn't want to use a table because I wanted to be able to nest the hierarchies.
It bears emphasis that this is a rough document meant more as a starting point for data than an authoritative reference. I have included actual, verifiable nominees and appointees alongside expected and even rumored ones. I have mixed and matched current job titles with prior job titles. I have gone very far down the organizational hierarchy in some spots and barely past the top level in others. Some people or groups are undoubtedly misplaced in their respective chains of command. Some appointees listed as holdovers from the Bush Administration may actually be career incumbents in nonpolitical positions. And I have not included any links because it is all I can do to find the time to post this.
Nonetheless, I think this may prove useful in some ways. My fervent wish is that by setting it loose others will take it farther. I will feel fortunate if there is any use folks can make of it.
Some final notes on convention: I have omitted professional titles and military ranks, and have generally used officials' nicknames rather than given names when known. I tend to use the title of the office or bureau rather than the title of the position (lots of omitted "assistant secretary"s and "assistant attorney general"s). And so forth.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Shaun Donovan
Special Assistant Peter Grace
Deputy Secretary Ron Sims
General Counsel Helen Kanovsky
Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner David Stevens
Deputy for Multifamily Housing Carol Galante
Community Planning and Development Mercedes Márquez
Public and Indian Housing Sandra Henriquez
Policy Development and Research Raphael Bostic
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity John Trasviña
Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations Peter Kovar
Administration/Chief Human Capital Officer
Public Affairs
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
Chief Financial Officer
Government National Mortgage Administration
Inspector General
Department of Transportation
Secretary Ray LaHood
Chief of Staff Joan DeBoer
Deputy Assistant and Deputy Director of Public Affairs Jill Zuckman
Deputy Secretary John Porcari
Undersecretary for Policy
Federal Aviation Administration Randy Babbitt
Deputy
Federal Highway Administration Victor Mendez
Deputy and Executive Director Jeffrey Paniati (holdover)
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Deputy Rose McMurray (holdover)
Federal Railroad Administration Joe Szabo
Deputy Jo Strang (holdover)
Federal Transit Administration Peter Rogoff
Deputy Matt Welbes (holdover)
Maritime Administration
Deputy James Caponiti (holdover)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Chuck Hurley
Deputy Ron Medford (holdover)
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Deputy Cindy Douglass (holdover)
Research and Innovative Technology Administration Peter Appel
Deputy Steven Smith (holdover)
Surface Transportation Board, Chair
Board Member
Board Member
St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation Terry Johnson (holdover)
Transportation Policy Roy Kienitz
Deputy Joel Szabat (holdover)
Governmental Affairs Dana Gresham
Deputy Heideh Shahmoradi (holdover)
Aviation and International Affairs Susan McDermott (acting)
Inspector General Calvin Scovel (holdover)
General Counsel Robert Rivkin
Budget and Programs and Chief Financial Officer
Deputy Lana Hurdle (holdover)
Administration Linda Washington (holdover)
Department of Energy
Secretary Steven Chu
Chief of Staff James O’Connor
Senior Advisor for Recovery Act Spending Matt Rogers
Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman
Undersecretary Kristina Johnson
Associate Richard Moorer (holdover)
Undersecretary for Science Steven Koonin
Director, Office of Science William Brinkman
Undersecretary for Nuclear Security/Administrator for Thomas D’Agostino
Nuclear Security (holdover)
Principal Deputy Administrator for National William Ostendorff
Nuclear Security
Deputy for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Jonathan George (acting)
Security Administration
Deputy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Kenneth Baker (acting)
Deputy for Naval Reactors Kirkland Donald
Deputy Undersecretary, Counterterrorism Steve Aoki
Chief Financial Officer Steve Isakowitz (holdover)
Policy and International Affairs David Sandalow
Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
General Counsel Scott Harris
Economic Impact and Diversity
Energy Information Administration
Inspector General
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Cathy Zoi
Principal Deputy Steven Chalk (holdover)
Environmental Management Ines Triay
Fossil Energy
Nuclear Energy
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Patricia Hoffman (acting)
Office of Science, Director
Department of Education
Secretary Arne Duncan
Chief of Staff
Deputy Matthew Yale
(consultant and senior adviser on higher ed) Robert Shireman
Deputy Secretary Linda Darling-Hammond
Undersecretary Martha Kanter
Chief Financial Officer
Management
Inspector General
General Counsel Charlie Rose
Legislation and Congressional Affairs Gabriella Gomez
Civil Rights Russlynn Ali
Elementary and Secondary Education
Postsecondary Education
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Vocational and Adult Education
Deputy Glenn Cummings
Institute of Education Sciences John Easton
Commissioner of Education Statistics
Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Carmel Martin
Office of Communications and Outreach Peter Cunningham
Deputy Tim Tuten
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Secretary Eric Shinseki
Deputy Secretary Scott Gould
Undersecretary for Health
Undersecretary for Benefits
Undersecretary for Memorial Affairs
General Counsel William Gunn
Policy and Planning
Management
Human Resources John Sepúlveda
Public and Intergovernmental Affairs Tammy Duckworth
Congressional and Legislative Affairs
Operations, Security, and Preparedness Jose Riojas
Information and Technology Roger Baker
Board of Veterans’ Appeals
Inspector General
Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano
Chief of Staff for Policy Noah Kroloff
Chief of Staff for Operations Jan Lesher
Senior Counselor Brian de Vallance
(border czar) Alan Bersin
Deputy Secretary Jane Lute
Senior Adviser Dora Schriro
Undersecretary for National Protection and Programs Rand Beers
Deputy Philip Reitinger
State and Local Law Enforcement Ted Sexton
Undersecretary for Management Elaine Duke (holdover)
Chief Financial Officer
Policy David Heyman
Deputy Esther Olavarria
Undersecretary for Science and Technology
Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis Philip Mudd
Deputy for Intelligence Todd Rosenblum
General Counsel Ivan Fong
Principal Deputy David Martin
Chief Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan
Federal Emergency Management Agency Craig Fugate
Deputy
Deputy for National Preparedness Timothy Manning
US Fire Administration
Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration
Administration and Resource Planning Directorate
Grant Programs
Transportation Security Administration
Customs and Border Protection Ralph Basham (holdover)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement John Morton
Citizenship and Immigration Services Tom Perez
Counternarcotics Enforcement
Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer
Inspector General
(Coast Guard) (Career Commandant)
Public Affairs
Deputy Sean Smith
Director of Strategic Communications Moira Whelan