Part I, State through Defense
Part II, Justice through HHS
Part III, HUD through Homeland Security
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 IV, we'll look at the independent Executive Branch agencies. NOTE: This is a selected, incomplete list of agencies.
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 director"s). And so forth.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Chair Gary Gensler
Commissioner Bart Chilton (ongoing term?)
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Corporation for National and Community Service
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair
Principal Deputy
Deputy for Management
Deputy for Collection
Deputy for Analysis Peter Lavoy
National Intelligence Council, Chair
Deputy for Customer Outcomes
Chief of Staff
General Counsel Robert Litt
Chief Information Officer Priscilla Guthrie
Central Intelligence Agency Leon Panetta
Deputy Stephen Kappes (holdover)
Statutory Inspector General
General Counsel Stephen Preston
Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Lisa Jackson
(Advisor on climate change) Lisa Henzerling
Deputy
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxics Substances Stephen Owens
Air and Radiation Gina McCarthy
Solid Waste and Emergency Response Mathy Stanislaus
Water Peter Silva
General Counsel
Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Cynthia Giles
Chief Financial Officer
Research and Development
International Affairs Michelle DePass
Administration and Resources Management
Environmental Information
Inspector General
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Chair Stuart Ishimaru (acting)
Vice Chair
Commissioner Stuart Ishimaru
Commissioner
Commissioner
General Counsel
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Chair Fred Hochberg
Farm Services Administration
Administrator Dennis Taitano (acting)
Federal Communications Commission
Chair Julius Genachowski
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Federal Deposit Insurance Commission
Chair Sheila Bair (term ends 2011)
Federal Election Commission
Chair
Vice Chair
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Chair Jon Wellinghoff
Commissioner Suedeen Kelly
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Chair Ben Bernanke (holdover - unexpired term)
Governor Dan Tarullo
Federal Trade Commission
Chair Jon Leibowitz
General Services Administration Martha Johnson
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Administrator Chris Scolese (acting)
Deputy
Chief Financial Officer Ronald Spoehel
Inspector General
Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Mary Kerwin (acting)
Office of Strategic Communications Mary Kerwin (acting)
Communications Planning Division Kristen Ericson (acting)
Office of Public Affairs Robert Jacobs (acting)
National Labor Relations Board
Chair Wilma Liebman
Office of Personnel Management
Director John Berry
Deputy Christine Griffin
Inspector General
General Counsel Elaine Kaplan
Director of Congressional Relations Tania Shand
Office of Special Counsel
Peace Corps
Deputy
Securities and Exchange Commission
Chair Mary Schapiro
General Counsel and Senior Policy Director David Becker
Deputy for Litigation and Adjudication Mark Cahn
Deputy for Legal Policy and Administrative Meridith Mitchell
Practice
Associate for Legal Policy Jeffrey Singdahlsen
Solicitor Jacob Stillman (holdover)
Deputy Michael Conley
Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami
Small Business Administration
Administrator Karen Mills
Deputy
Social Security Administration
Deputy
United States Agency for International Development
Director Gayle Smith
Deputy
Management
Global Health
Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade
Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance
Africa
Europe and Eurasia
Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean
Legislative and Public Affairs
Inspector General