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President Biden’s Team Confirmed choices of the 46th President

Secretary of Secretary of Treasury Homeland Security

Antony Blinken Former Deputy Former Chairwoman of Former Deputy Secretary of State the Federal Reserve Secretary of Homeland Board Security

Secretary of Health and Human Services

Xavier Becerra Current Attorney General of President Biden’s Team Rumored choices of the 46th President

Secretary of U.S. Attorney Secretary of Defense General Interior

Lloyd Austin Steve Bullock Retired General, former head of U.S. Central Current Attorney General of California of Montana and former presidential Command candidate

Tammy Duckworth Raul Grivalja Member of the Armed Services Committee Congressman from Arizona and Chair of the and former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Senator from and former Committee on Natural Resources presidential candidate that gave key Michele Flournoy endorsement to Biden in the primaries Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Congresswoman from Arizona, one of the first Doug Jones Native American women elected to Congress Former Senator from Alabama and former U.S. Former Secretary of Homeland Security, and Attorney former General Counsel of the Department of Junior Senator from New Mexico Defense

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Sally Yates Tom Udall Former Coordinator for Defense Policy, Former acting AG under Obama and outspoken Retiring Senator from New Mexico and son of Countering WMDs, and Arms Control under critic of Trump’s Department of Justice the former U.S. Secretary of Interior in the Obama 60’s, Stewart Udall

Secretary of Secretary of Secretary of Agriculture Commerce Labor

Marcia Fudge Ursula Burns Andy Levin Congresswoman from Ohio, Chair of the Member of the Board of Directors of Uber Congressman from MI, former labor organizer House Ag. Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations Seth Harris Rohit Chopra Former Secretary of Labor under Obama Current Commissioner of the FTC, consumer Julie Su Former Senator from North Dakota and advocate and the progressive’s choice previous attorney for the EPA in the 80s. Secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency Susan Helper Karen Ross Former Chief of the Department of Twice appointed Secretary of the California Commerce Department of Food and Agriculture Mayor of

Tom Vilsack Indra Nooyi Jenny Yang Former Secretary of Agriculture under Former CEO of PepsiCo Former chair of the Equal Employment Obama, former Governor of Iowa Opportunity Commission

Secretary of Secretary of Secretary of Energy Housing and Urban Development Transportation

Karen Bass Rahm Emmanuel Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and Former Mayor of , and former Chief of Former and previous former speaker of the California State Staff to President Obama front-runner for the position under Obama Assembly

Keisha Lance Bottoms Jay Inslee Mayor of Atlanta Climate Crisis advocate and Governor of Eric Garcetti Washington state Alvin Brown The Mayor of LA serves as a co-chair of Former Mayor of Jacksonville, Biden’s campaign and is a key Democratic fundraiser Chuy Garcia Former Energy Secretary under Obama Freshman Congressman from Illinois with experience in community building in Chicago Polly Trottenberg Maurice Jones Commissioner of the City Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall President and CEO of the Local Initiatives Department of Transportation appointed by Former Coordinator for Defense Policy, Support Coalition, and former Deputy Mayor De Blasio Countering WMDs, and Arms Control under Undersecretary of HUD under Obama Obama President Biden’s Team Rumored choices of the 46th President

Secretary of Secretary of FCC Chair Education Veteran Affairs

Lily Eskelsen Garcia Mignon Clyburn President of the influential interest group, Former intelligence officer and presidential Former commissioner at the FCC and daughter National Education Association candidate that gave key endorsement to Biden of House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn

Jahana Hayes Tammy Duckworth Congresswoman from Connecticut, former Member of the Armed Services Committee and public school teacher former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Jessica Rosenworcel Current Member of the Federal Denise Juneau Jason Kander Communications Commission Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools Former intelligence officer in the Army National Guard and former Secretary of State of Missouri Betty A. Rosa Interim Commissioner of Education and Robert McDonald President of the University of the State of Former VA Secretary under New York Patrick Murphy Sonja Santelises Former Congressman from Florida, former CEO of City Public Schools Acting Secretary of the Army, and Veteran

Domestic Climate Czar EPA Administrator Jennifer Granholm Former Governor of Michigan Tom Carper Ranking Member of the Senate Environment Jay Inslee and Public Works Committee Climate Crisis advocate and Governor of Washington state Jay Inslee Climate Crisis advocate and Governor of Ali Zaida Washington state New York State Deputy Secretary for Energy and Environment Mary Nichols Chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board Former White House Chief of Staff to President Obama

Gina McCarthy Former EPA Administrator under Obama Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Neera Tanden, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. President of Center for American Progress, a position in which she has served since 2011. Previously, Tanden worked in the Obama Administration as Senior Adviser to Secretary of Health and Human Services , working to build the . Tanden also served as policy staff on the Presidential campaigns of , Barack Obama, and .

Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, Deputy Treasury Secretary. Nigerian-American and first President of the Obama Foundation. Adeyemo served in many economic and trade-related positions during the Obama Administration, including Deputy National Security Advisor for International and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. Adeyemo also represented the U.S. at the G7, , and as chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s macroeconomics policy.

Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors. Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, a position she has held since 2012. Rouse previously served as a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and President Clinton’s National Economic Council. Rouse's research focuses on labor economics and the economics of education.

Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence. International lawyer and Director of the World Projects. During the Obama Administration, Haines served as the Deputy National Security Advisor, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs. Haines has worked in multiple positions at the Department of State and as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then-Chairman Biden. Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Ron Klain, Chief of Staff for President Biden. Former Chief of Staff to Vice President , and served as President-elect Biden’s Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2011. Klain is perhaps best known in recent history for serving as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator from 2014 to 2015, where he managed the federal response to the West African Ebola epidemic. Klain has also previously served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Legislative Director for Ed Markey (D-MA) during his time in the House of Representatives, and Chief of Staff to Attorney General .

Louisa Terrell, Director of Legislative Affairs. Deputy General Counsel and Head of Public Affairs at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. Terrell previously served as Special Assistant to President Obama for Legislative Affairs, Advisor to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler, Chief of Staff for Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Deputy Chief of Staff for then-Senator Biden. Terrell has also worked in policy positions for the Biden Foundation, Yahoo, and .

Shuwanza Goff, Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs. Currently serves as the Floor Director for Legislative Operations for House Majority leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and has been a career House staffer since 2008. Goff has served in Majority Leader Hoyer’s officer since 2008, when she came onboard as a Staff Assistant; she would eventually rise to serve as Hoyer’s Deputy Director of Legislative Operations.

Reema Dodin, Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs. Currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff and Floor Director for Senator (D-IL), a position she has held since 2011. Dodin has served in Sen. Durbin’s office for the majority of her career, having started working in the office after interning there in 2006. She also volunteered for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, as well as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Dodin is a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project, as well as the New Leaders Council. Senior Administration Officials and Staff Bios People supporting the 46th President

Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor. Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with a focus on national security and . Sullivan previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Deputy Assistant to President Obama, and National Security Advisor to then-Vice President Biden. Sullivan was involved in the nuclear negotiations as a senior adviser to the U.S. government.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Ambassador to the . Career diplomat, having served in the Department of State since joining the Foreign Service in 1982 until 2017. Thomas-Greenfield most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and was previously the Director General of the Foreign Service, and U.S. Ambassador to . Before her diplomatic career, Thomas-Greenfield taught political science at Bucknell University.

Brian Deese, . Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock, an investment management company. Deese previously served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and Senior Advisor to the President on climate and energy during the Obama Administration. Deese also worked on President Obama’s 2008 campaign, as an economic adviser and member of the transition’s Economic Policy Working Group.

Dana Remus, White House Counsel. Attorney who has served as Deputy Counsel for Ethics to President Obama, General Counsel for the Obama Foundation, Counsel to Michelle Obama, and General Counsel for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Remus previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and taught judicial and legal ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law.