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ELECTION INSIGHT 2020

“This isn’t about – yeah, it is about me, I guess, when you think about it.”

– President Donald J. Trump Kenosha Wisconsin Regional Airport Election Eve.

1 • Election Insight 2020 Contents

04 … Election Results on One Page 06 … Biden Transition Team 10 … Potential Biden Administration

2 • Election Insight 2020 Election Results on One Page

3 • Election Insight 2020 DENTONS’ DEMOCRATS Election Results on One Page “The waiting is the hardest part.” Election results as of 1:15 pm November 11th – Tom Petty

Top Line Biden declared by multiple news networks to be America’s next president. Biden’s win puts him over 270. Georgia and not yet called. Biden narrowly leads in GA while Trump leads in NC. Trump campaign seeks recounts in GA and Wisconsin and files multiple lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results in states where Biden has won. Two January 5, 2021 runoff elections in Georgia will determine Senate control. Senator Mitch McConnell will remain Majority Leader and divided government will continue, complicating the prospects for Biden’s legislative agenda, unless Democrats win both runoff s. Democrats retain their House majority but Republicans narrow the Democrats’ margin with a net pickup of six seats.

Incumbents Losing Reelection • Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) • Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA-48) • Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM-3) • Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) • Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL-26) • Rep. Max Rose (D-NY-11) • Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) • Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL-27) • Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK-5) • Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-IA-1) • Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC-1) • Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN-7)

Electoral College

WA ME MT ND MN OR ID NY SD WI MI WY IA NE PA NV OH IL IN UT NH ME 1 CO WV VA KS MO CA KY MA ME 2

TN NC CT NE 2

AZ NM OK AR SC RI

MS AL GA RECOUNT NJ LA TX VT

DE AK FL DC

HI MD

Biden: 290 Trump: 217

270 to win

Majority Map Senate House

100 435

50 48 201 218 Republican: 50 Democrat: 48 Republican: 201 Democrat: 218

Governors Attorneys General 2020 Attorney General Races State Incumbent Challenger State Incumbent Challenger State Incumbent Challenger State Incumbent Challenger DE John Carney Jr. Bryant Richardson DE John Carney Jr. Bryant Richardson DE John Carney Jr. Bryant Richardson Open () Jonathan Weinzapel IN Eric Holcomb Woody Myers IN Eric Holcomb Woody Myers IN Eric Holcomb Woody Myers Missouri Eric Schmitt Rich Finneran MO Mike Parson Nicole Galloway MO Mike Parson Nicole Galloway MO Mike Parson Nicole Galloway Open () Raph Graybill MT Austin Knudson MT Austin Knudson Greg Gianforte MT Austin Knudson Greg Gianforte North Carolina Jim O'Neill NH Chris Sununu Dan Feltes NH Chris Sununu Dan Feltes NH Chris Sununu Dan Feltes Michael Cross NC Dan Forest NC Roy Cooper Dan Forest NC Roy Cooper Dan Forest Pennsylvania 4 •Heather Election Heidelbaugh Insight 2020 ND Doug Burgum Shelley Lenz ND Doug Burgum Shelley Lenz ND Doug Burgum Shelley Lenz Greg Skordas UT Open () Chris Peterson UT Open (Spencer Cox) Chris Peterson UT Open (Spencer Cox) Chris Peterson T.J. Donovan H. Brooke Paige VT Phil Scott David Zuckerman VT Phil Scott David Zuckerman VT Phil Scott David Zuckerman Washington Bob Ferguson Matt Larkin WA Jay Inslee Loren Culp WA Jay Inslee Loren Culp WA Jay Inslee Loren Culp West Sam Petsonk WVA Ben Salango WVA Jim Justice Ben Salango WVA Jim Justice Ben Salango There are 10 attorney general seats on the ballot in 2020. These elections are in Indiana, Winner Uncalled F Seat has been flipped Winner Uncalled F Seat has been flipped Winner Uncalled F Seat has been flipped Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and .

© 2020 Dentons. Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and aff iliates. This publication is not designed to provide legal or other advice and you should not take, or refrain from taking, action based on its content. Please see dentons.com for Legal Notices. • There are 11 governorships up in 2020; considerably fewer than in 2018 • There are 11 governorships up in 2020; considerably fewer than in 2018 • There are 11 governorships up in 2020; considerably fewer than in 2018 • Seven are held by Republicans; four are held by Democrats • Seven are held by Republicans; four are held by Democrats • Seven are held by Republicans; four are held by Democrats • Each party is defending one open seat, with no incumbent • Each party is defending one open seat, with no incumbent • Each party is defending one open seat, with no incumbent • Montana: Steve Bullock (D) is term-limited; LG Mike Cooney (D) faces Rep. Greg Gianforte (R) • Montana: Steve Bullock (D) is term-limited; LG Mike Cooney (D) faces Rep. Greg Gianforte (R) • Montana: Steve Bullock (D) is term-limited; LG Mike Cooney (D) faces Rep. Greg Gianforte (R) • Utah: (R) is retiring; LG Spencer Cox defeated ex-Gov. Jon Huntsman in primary • Utah: Gary Herbert (R) is retiring; LG Spencer Cox defeated ex-Gov. Jon Huntsman in primary • Utah: Gary Herbert (R) is retiring; LG Spencer Cox defeated ex-Gov. Jon Huntsman in primary • West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R), elected in 2016 as a Democrat, won June 9 primary with 63% of • West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R), elected in 2016 as a Democrat, won June 9 primary with 63% of • Westthe vote; Virginia faces Gov. Kanawha Jim Justice County (R), Commissionerelected in 2016 Ben as a Salango Democrat, won June 9 primary with 63% of the vote; faces Kanawha County Commissioner Ben Salango the vote; faces Kanawha County Commissioner Ben Salango Biden Transition Team

5 • Election Insight 2020 DENTONS’ DEMOCRATS

The Biden Transition Team

The Biden Transition team’s goal has been to stay under the radar before the election while quietly preparing for significant changes in policy and personnel, should Biden win. The team is made up of long time confidantes to Biden, like Ted Kaufman, and veterans from previous government service like and Sally Yates. The make-up of the team demonstrates Biden’s commitment to diversity and to including more women in key roles. Like the Transition team, a Biden Administration will be the most diverse in our nation’s history.

Ted Kaufman Jeff rey Zients Michelle Lujan Grisham Co-Chairs Co-Chairs Co-Chairs Co-Chairs Ted is a former Senator from Jeff rey D. Zients is an American chief executive Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham is a lawyer and Cedric Levon Richmond is a lawyer and Delaware where he served on the Foreign off icer, management consultant, and politician serving as the 32nd governor of politician. A member of the Democratic Relations, Armed Services, Judiciary, and entrepreneur. Zients is currently the President New Mexico since 2019. A member of the Party, he has been the U.S. Representative for Homeland Security Committees. of Cranemere. From February 2014 to January Democratic Party, Lujan Grisham previously ’s 2nd congressional district since 2017, he served as Director of the United States served as the U.S. Representative for New 2011. His district includes most of New Orleans. In addition to his work on these committees National Economic Council and President Mexico’s 1st congressional district from From 2017 to 2019, Richmond served as he was deeply involved in the Dodd Frank Obama’s Economic Advisor 2013 to 2018. Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Wall Street reform, advocating for science technology engineering and math (STEM) education, and highlighting the value of federal employees.

Anita Dunn Dr. Vivek Murthy Dr.David Kessler Dr. Celine Gounder Co-Chairs COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team Anita Babbitt Dunn is an American political Former Surgeon General Former FDA Commissioner,Center for Science University Medical School strategist who served as Acting in the Public Interest Director Assistant Professor Communications Director from April through November 2009.

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Dr. Zeke Emanuel Dr. Nicole Lurie Dr. Margaret Hamburg COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team Yale University Associate Professor of Medicine Former Obama White House Aide Former Obama HHS Assistant Sec for Former Obama FDA Commissioner Preparedness

Dr. Julie Morita Dr. Helene Gayle Tony Allen COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team Advisory Board Advisory Board Former Chicago Health Commissioner Former CDC Off icial Tony Allen became the Delaware State Jared Bernstein is a Senior Fellow at the Center University’s 12th President on January 1, on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to 2020. Previously, Tony led the corporate 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and reputation group at Bank of America and was Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph responsible for developing programming to Biden in the Obama Administration. He was influential media elites, national social justice considered to be a progressive and “a strong advocates, academics and elected off icials and advocate for workers.” their staff at federal and local levels. 1 • The Biden Transition Team 6 • Election Insight 2020 Leslie Caldwell Mark Gittenstein Cecilia Martinez Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an Leslie Ragon Caldwell is an American attorney, Mark Henry Gitenstein is a lawyer who served Dr. Cecilia Martinez is the co-founder and American politician and War and was until January 13, 2017 the Assistant as the United States Ambassador to Romania Executive Director at the Center for Earth, veteran. He served as the mayor of South Attorney General for the Criminal Division of from 2009 to 2012. He was nominated by Energy and Democracy (CEED). Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 and was a the United States Department of Justice. She President on June 11, 2009 candidate for the Democratic nomination in has spent the majority of her professional and confirmed by the on the 2020 United States presidential election. career handling federal criminal cases, as both July 8, 2009. a prosecutor and as defense attorney.

Bob McDonald Minyon Moore Vivek Murthy Susan Rice Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Robert Alan McDonald served as the eighth Minyon Moore is an American political activist Vivek Hallegere Murthy is an American Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat, United States Secretary of Veterans Aff airs. and civil servant. Moore is the founder of physician and former vice admiral in the Public Democratic policy advisor, and former public He is the retired chairman, president, and Women Building for the Future, and heads Health Service Commissioned Corps who off icial, who served as the 27th United States CEO of Procter & Gamble. In 2014 he became Dewey Square Group’s state and local practice. served as the nineteenth Surgeon General of ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 Secretary of Veterans Aff airs. the United States. to 2013 and as the 24th United States advisor from 2013 to 2017.

Teresa Romero Cathy Russell Lonnie Stephenson Felicia Wong Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board The first Latina and first immigrant woman to Catherine M. Russell is an American On May 27, 2015, Lonnie Stephenson was Felicia Wong is the President and CEO of the become president of a national union in the policymaker who was the United States appointed International President of the IBEW Roosevelt Institute, a New York-based think United States. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s and was elected by delegates to the 39th tank and campus network that promotes a bold Issues from May 8, 2013, until January 20, International Convention a year later. economic and political vision. 2017. Before that, she was chief of staff to the Second Lady of the United States, Jill Biden.

Sally Yates Yohannes Abraham Gautam Raghavan Advisory Board S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff Sally Quillian Yates is a lawyer. She was a United Yohannes Abraham is an Adjunct Lecturer in Avril Danica Haines is a lawyer and former Gautam Raghavan was the Associate Director States Attorney, later United States Deputy Public Policy at the , government off icial who served as the White of Public Engagement under President Obama, Attorney General, having been appointed where he previously served as a Residential House Deputy National Security Advisor, acting as a liaison to both the LGBT and Asian to both positions by President Barack Fellow at the Institute of Politics. Prior to serving in Barack Obama’s administration. She American and Pacific Islander communities Obama, and later was Acting United States Harvard, Abraham served as Senior Advisor previously served as Deputy Director of the from 2011 to 2014. Attorney General. at the Obama Foundation, helping to set Central Intelligence Agency, the first woman to up the new organization as interim Chief hold this position. Operating Off icer.

2 • The Biden Transition Team 7 • Election Insight 2020 Angela Ramirez Evan Ryans Julie Siegel S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff Chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján Evan Maureen Ryan is a U.S. public servant Senior counsel for economic policy (May 2019- Cynthia C. Hogan is an American attorney and Executive director of the Congressional who worked as Assistant Secretary of State June 2020) and banking counsel (from Aug. political advisor who served as Counsel to the Hispanic Caucus, 2006-08. for Educational and Cultural Aff airs from 2013 2017) to Sen. . at the Vice President of the United States, to 2017. Prior to becoming Assistant Secretary U.S. District Court for the District of . from 2009 to 2013. In 2020, Hogan joined of State, she served as the assistant for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign intergovernmental aff airs and public liaison for as a member of the vice presidential vetting Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States. committee.

Cecilia Muñoz Tanya Bradsher Suzy George Don Graves S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff Cecilia Muñoz is an American political advisor As Assistant Secretary for Public Aff airs from Suzy George is ONE’s Chief Operating Off icer Don Graves is Head of Corporate Responsibility who served as Director of the White House April 2014 to August 2015, Tanya J. Bradsher (COO) where she oversees finance, human & Community Relations at KeyBank. Domestic Policy Council under President oversaw the Department of Homeland resources, information technology, and global Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Obama, a position she held for five years. Prior Security’s public outreach, media, strategic operations departments. Suzy previously to President Obama, and Counselor to Vice to that, she served as the White House Director and incident communications eff orts and served as Deputy Assistant to the President, President Biden. of Intergovernmental Aff airs for three years. served as the principal advisor to Secretary Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Jeh C. Johnson on all internal and external National Security Council under President As Biden’s Domestic and Economic Policy communications. Obama and National Security Advisor Director, he provided advice on a range of Susan Rice. policy issues including ways to create jobs, opportunity, and widening the path to the middle class for the American people and as Biden’s Traveling Chief of Staff .

Jessica Hertz Tara McGuinness Darla Pomeroy Carlos Monje S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff S t a ff Jessica R. Hertz is a lawyer in Washington, DC Tara Dawson McGuinness founded the New Member and manager at Pomeroy Investments Carlos Monje was Counselor to US. Practice Lab, a research and design lab from 2008. Co-owner and SVP of corporate Transportation Secretary . He She served as principal deputy counsel to focused on family economic security. development at Edge Wireless. worked on the administration’s proposal to Vice President Joseph R. Biden for nearly two reauthorize surface transportation programs, years, during which time she provided strategic McGuinness joined New America after on the TIGER discretionary grant program, advice on a wide range of compliance and risk leaving the Obama administration where she and on eff orts to promote equity and management issues. oversaw the federal teams working alongside economic development. In August, 2014, city, non-profit, and philanthropic leaders in President Obama announced his intent to Detroit, , and Flint, and many other nominate Monje as Assistant Secretary for communities Transportation Policy.

Cameron French S t a ff Vice president of public aff airs at SKDKnickerbocker from June 2018.

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8 • Election Insight 2020 Potential Biden Administration

9 • Election Insight 2020 DENTONS’ DEMOCRATS

The Biden Administration

A potential Biden Administration will have fewer outsiders who have never served in government before than President Trump brought to Washington after he was elected. The candidates for top roles in a Biden Administration all have long records of government service. Many served in top roles in the Clinton and Obama Administration. Biden has a deep bench to choose from. He will likely be guided by his commitment to make his cabinet the most diverse in history, but also he will want to ensure it is staff ed by veterans who are ready to overhaul policies put in place by Trump beginning on day one. While we have included several sitting Senators as possible choices for a Biden Administration, it is also possible Biden will discourage service by any sitting US senators because the margin in the US Senate will be so slim, even if the Democrats are able to win back the Senate.

Chief of Staff Secretary of State

Ron Klain Bruce Reed Susan Rice Chief of Staff Chief of Staff Chief of Staff Secretary of State Klain is a senior advisor for the Biden Richetti is chair of the Biden campaign. He has Reed is now CEO and Co-Founder of Civic, a Rice is an opinion writer for The New York campaign, a member of the Advisory served in multiple Democratic administrations, bipartisan policy ideas company. Previously, Times. She also sits on the boards of , Committee on Cyber and International including as deputy assistant for legislative Reed was the first president of the Broad the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Communications at the U.S. Department of aff airs and as deputy chief of staff to President Foundation. At the Aspen Institute, he is also and the Aspen Strategy Group. She served State and a contributing columnist at the and as chief of staff to Vice a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy on the National Security Council during . A longtime top Democratic President Biden from 2012 to 2013. After Group. Reed was President Clinton’s chief Obama administration. Outside the White aide, Klain has served as chief of staff to Vice graduating from the George Mason University domestic policy advisor, and in the Obama House, Rice was the U.S. representative to President from 1995 to 1999 and Vice Law School, he served as White House, he served as Assistant to the the United Nations.After receiving her Ph.D. President Biden from 2009 to 2011. In the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial President and Chief of Staff to Vice President from the University of Oxford, Rice worked at midst of the Ebola epidemic, President Barack Campaign Committee. Joe Biden. Reed began his career as chief McKinsey & Co, the National Security Council Obama appointed him as the White House speechwriter for Sen. Al Gore, policy director during the Clinton administration, and served response coordinator from 2014 to 2015. for Gov. Bill Clinton at the Democratic as assistant secretary of African aff airs in After graduating from , he Leadership Council, and deputy campaign the U.S. State Department during the Bush clerked for U.S. Associate Justice manager for policy of the 1992 Clinton-Gore administration. and also served as chief counsel of the Senate campaign. He graduated from Princeton and Judiciary Committee. Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Council of Economic Advisors

Tony Blinken Chris Coons Jared Bernstein Heather Boushey Secretary of State Secretary of State Council of Economic Advisors Council of Economic Advisors Blinken is a advisor for the Biden Chris Coons is currently an American politician Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Center on Boushey is the chief economist and executive campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, he serving as a Democrat in the US Senate since Budget and Policy Priorities. In addition, he director at the Washington Center for Equitable served as director of Human Rights First, a 2010. Coons’s political career began in 2000, is a contributor at The American Prospect Growth and a contributing editor at The group that holds the U.S. government and when he was elected to the New Castle County and The Washington Post and on the board American Prospect. She previously served private companies accountable for human Council in Delaware. He became county of directors at the Mertz Gilmore Foundation as chief economist for the rights violations. Before that, Blinken served executive in 2005, serving until 2010.Coons and the National Employment Law Project. campaign. After receiving her Ph.D. from the as deputy secretary of state and a member of went to Amherst College, where he received Before that, he served as executive director of New School for Social Research, Boushey the National Security Council in the Obama a bachelor’s degree in political science and the White House Task Force on Middle Class became the chief economist at the Center for administration, including serving as deputy chemistry in 1985. A recipient of a Truman Working Families in the Obama administration American Progress. assistant for national security issues to Vice scholarship, Coons spent his junior year in and assistant to Vice President Biden on President Biden. After graduating from Kenya, taking courses at the University of economic policy.After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia Law School, he served in the Clinton Nairobi. Coons later enrolled at Yale University Columbia University, he served as deputy chief White House as senior director for strategic and earned (1992) both a master’s degree economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. planning and senior director for European in religion from the Yale Divinity School and Canadian aff airs. He has also been a and a doctorate in jurisprudence from Yale senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Law School. International Studies and staff director on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

1 • A look at the Biden Administration 10 • Election Insight 2020 National Security Advisor

Jason Furman Tony Blinken Robert Malley Council of Economic Advisors National Security Advisor National Security Advisor National Security Advisor Furman is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy Sullivan serves as a senior policy advisor for Blinken is a foreign policy advisor for the Biden Malley is the president and CEO of the School of Government and a nonresident the Biden campaign and a contributor to the campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, he International Crisis Group, a think tank founded senior fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute magazine Foreign Policy. He most recently served as director of Human Rights First, a in 1995 focused on researching and analyzing for International Economics. Furman is an served as a senior policy advisor on foreign group that holds the U.S. government and global crises. Prior to this role, he served on the alum of the Obama administration, where he policy matters to 2016 Democratic presidential private companies accountable for human White House National Security Council during served as chair of the Council of Economic candidate Hillary Clinton. Before serving as rights violations. Before that, Blinken served the Obama administration, where he focused Advisors and the principal deputy director of a senior advisor to the Under Secretary of as deputy secretary of state and a member of on the Middle East and North Africa and the the National Economic Council. After receiving State for Political Aff airs, he was a member of the National Security Council in the Obama Counter-ISIL campaign. Malley graduated from his Ph.D. from , Furman the White House National Security Council in administration, including serving as deputy Harvard Law School. became the director of the Hamilton Project at the Obama administration. After graduating assistant for national security issues to Vice the and a member of the from Yale Law School, he clerked on the U.S. President Biden. After graduating from Council of Economic Advisors. He also served Supreme Court and served as chief counsel for Columbia Law School, he served in the Clinton on the National Economic Council in the Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). White House as senior director for strategic Clinton administration. planning and senior director for European and Canadian aff airs. He has also been a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and staff director on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. National Economic Council U.S. Trade Representative

Lael Brainard Sarah Bloom Raskin Larry Summers Pete Buttigieg National Economic Council National Economic Council National Economic Council U.S. Trade Representative Brainard is a member of the Raskin is currently the Rubenstein Fellow at Summers is a professor of economics Buttigieg entered the national spotlight during Board of Governors, a position to which she . Before that, she was a member at Harvard University and an economic the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He was appointed in 2014. Before her current role, of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors advisor for the Biden campaign. He has is a faculty fellow at the University of Notre she served as undersecretary of the treasury from 2010 to 2014 and deputy secretary of held a number of positions in previous Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study and for international aff airs from 2010 to 2013. She the Treasury Department from 2014 to 2017. Democratic administrations, including previously served as mayor of South Bend, was also the U.S. representative to the G-20 Prior to her nomination to the Federal Reserve, as Treasury Department secretary in the Indiana. After attending Oxford University Finance Deputies and G-7 Deputies, as well as a Raskin served as commissioner of financial Clinton administration. During the Obama on a , Buttigieg was a member of the Financial Stability Board. Before regulation for Maryland and as counsel on the administration, he served as director of the consultant at McKinsey & Co. and served in the joining the Treasury Department, Brainard Senate Banking Committee. After graduating National Economic Council. Even if he does not U.S. Navy Reserve, where he was deployed to worked in private practice, was a fellow at the from Harvard Law School, she spent several hold an off icial position in the administration, Afghanistan. Brookings Institution and served as deputy years in the private sector, including as Biden is likely to lean on Summers for national economic advisor and deputy managing director of the Promontory Financial economic counsel. Summers received his assistant to President Bill Clinton. Brainard Group. She is married to Rep. Jamie Raskin doctoral degree from Harvard University. earned a doctorate from Harvard University, (D-MD), a member of Maryland’s congressional where she won a National Science Foundation delegation. Fellowship and a White House Fellowship.

O� ice of Management Secretary of the Treasury and Budget

Thea Lee Josh Bivens Elizabeth Warren US Trade Representative Off ice of Management and Budget Off ice of Management and Budget Secretary of the Treasury Thea Lee is the president of the Economic Bivens is the director of research at the Rob Nabors currently works for the Bill and Warren, a Democratic senator from Policy Institute. Lee has a longstanding Economic Policy Institute. Prior to this role, Melinda Gates Foundation where he manages since 2013, received the relationship with EPI, having begun her career he was an assistant professor of economics government relations, policy, advocacy, and third-most delegates in the 2020 Democratic here as an international trade economist in at Roosevelt University. After receiving communications in North America. Previously, presidential primary. During her presidential the 1990s. Lee came to EPI from the AFL-CIO, his Ph.D. from the New School for Social he was at the U.S. Department of Veterans run, a cornerstone of her platform was where she served as deputy chief of staff . Research, he provided consulting services to Aff airs where he was chief of staff . Prior to that increasing taxes on the wealthy. In the Senate, Lee holds a master’s degree in economics Oxfam America. role, he served in the Obama Administration she sits on the Senate Banking Committee and from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as the White House’s director of Legislative the committee’s Subcommittee on Securities, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Aff airs and deputy chief of staff for Policy. Rob Insurance and Investment. She previously Smith College. spent several years in various positions in the served as ranking member of the Economic White House’s Off ice of Management and Policy Subcommittee. After receiving her law Budget, most recently as deputy director. He degree from Rutgers State University, she also served on the U.S. House Appropriations taught law at the University of Pennsylvania Committee, including as majority staff director and Harvard University. .Rob holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

2 • A look at the Biden Administration 11 • Election Insight 2020 Jamie Dimon Richard Cordray Neel Kashkari Lael Brainard Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Treasury Dimon is the chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase Cordray served as the first director of the Kashkari is the president of the Federal Reserve Brainard is a member of the Federal Reserve & Co., a position he has held since 2005. Prior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Bank of Minneapolis. As an interim assistant Board of Governors, a position to which she to that, he served as chair and CEO of Bank 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, he served in a secretary of the treasury for financial stability was appointed in 2014. Before her current role, One and president of Citigroup. Dimon is number of positions in Ohio state government, from late-2008 to mid-2009, he was tasked she served as undersecretary of the treasury outspoken on his political positions, and it has including attorney general, state treasurer, with administering the Troubled Asset Relief for international aff airs from 2010 to 2013. She often been rumored that he may one day seek solicitor general and as a member of the Ohio Program (TARP). Kashkari is a Republican was also the U.S. representative to the G-20 the presidency himself. Dimon is a graduate of House of Representatives. In 2011, he ran but was asked to remain at the Treasury Finance Deputies and G-7 Deputies, as well as a the Harvard Business School. unsuccessfully against current Ohio Gov. Mike Department for the first few months of the member of the Financial Stability Board. Before DeWine. After receiving his law degree from Obama administration. He also received joining the Treasury Department, Brainard the , Cordray clerked support from several Democratic members of worked in private practice, was a fellow at the for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White Congress. He is a graduate of the University of Brookings Institution and served as deputy and Anthony Kennedy before moving to the Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. national economic advisor and deputy international law firm Jones Day. assistant to President Bill Clinton. Brainard earned a doctorate from Harvard University, where she won a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a White House Fellowship. Secretary of Defense

Sarah Bloom Raskin Michèle Flournoy Tammy Duckworth Jack Reed Secretary of Treasury Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense Raskin is currently the Rubenstein Fellow at Flournoy serves as co-founder and managing Duckworth is the junior Democratic senator Jack Reed is an American politician serving as Duke University. Before that, she was a member partner of WestExec Advisors, a geopolitical from Illinois, a position she has held the senior United States Senator from Rhode of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors strategic advisory firm for business leaders. since 2017. She sits on the Senate Armed Island since 1996. He previously served as the from 2010 to 2014 and deputy secretary of She is also a senior fellow at Harvard Services Subcommittee on Personnel, the U.S. Representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd the Treasury Department from 2014 to 2017. University’s Belfer Center for Science and Subcommittee on Readiness and Management congressional district from 1991 to 1997. Reed Prior to her nomination to the Federal Reserve, International Aff airs. During the Obama Support and the Subcommittee on Airland. graduated from the United States Military Raskin served as commissioner of financial administration, she served as undersecretary Before joining the Senate, Duckworth was a Academy and Harvard University, serving in the regulation for Maryland and as counsel on the of defense for policy from 2009 to 2012. Prior member of the House of Representatives from U.S. Army as an active off icer from 1971 to 1979. Senate Banking Committee. After graduating to this role, Flournoy co-founded the Center 2013 to 2017. After receiving her M.A. from He is the dean of Rhode Island’s congressional from Harvard Law School, she spent several for a New American Security (CNAS), where George Washington University, she joined the delegation. years in the private sector, including as she currently serves on the board. After Illinois Army National Guard and worked as managing director of the Promontory receiving her M.Litt. from Oxford University, a staff supervisor at the Rotary International Financial Group. She is married to Rep. Jamie Flournoy joined the Harvard Kennedy School of headquarters in Illinois. Raskin (D-MD), a member of Maryland’s Government, where she was a research fellow congressional delegation. focusing on international security.

Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Commerce

Raúl Grijalva Tom Udall Rohit Chopra Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Commerce Grijalva has served as a Democratic member Senator Udall is finishing his second term Haaland has served as a Democratic member Chopra is a commissioner on the Federal of Congress for since 2003 and and has opted to not run for re-election. of Congress for New Mexico since 2019. Trade Commission, where he has served currently chairs the House Natural Resources In the Senate, Udall is a member of the She chairs the House Natural Resources since 2018. Before that, he was an advisor on Committee. Prior to joining Congress, Grijalva Appropriations and Indian Aff airs Committees, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and the Hillary Clinton campaign and a special chaired the board of supervisors for the among others. Prior to joining the Senate, Public Lands. After receiving her law degree advisor to the undersecretary of education in Country of Prima, Arizona. After graduating Udall served in the US House and as New from the University of New Mexico, Haaland the Obama administration. After graduating from the University of Arizona, Grijalva was Mexico Attorney General.” unsuccessfully ran for New Mexico lieutenant from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton elected to the Tucson Unified School District governor and chaired the New Mexico School of Business, Chopra became a policy board and became the director of El Pueblo Democratic Party. analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection Neighborhood Center. He was also the Bureau and a senior fellow at the Center for assistant dean for Hispanic student aff airs at American Progress. the University of Arizona.

3 • A look at the Biden Administration 12 • Election Insight 2020 Attorney General

Susan Helper Amy Klobuchar Stacey Abrams Preet Bharara Secretary of Commerce Attorney General Attorney General Attorney General Helper is a professor of economics at Case Klobuchar, the senior Democratic senator Abrams serves as co-owner and COO of Family Bharara is a senior legal analyst on CNN and Western Reserve University, a research representing Minnesota since 2007, made Room, Inc. and as a member of the board of a distinguished scholar in residence at the associate at the National Bureau of Economic a late-cycle surge in the 2020 Democratic directors for the Center for American Progress. New York University School of Law. During Research and a nonresident senior fellow presidential primary, almost gaining enough She also founded and runs Fair Fight Action, the Obama administration, he was the U.S. at the Brookings Institution. Before that, traction to challenge Biden and Sen. Bernie an organization dedicated to addressing voter attorney for the Southern District of New York. Helper was a senior economist in the Obama Sanders (I-VT) for the nomination. Following suppression, especially in Georgia and . After graduating from Columbia Law School, administration’s Council of Economic her exit from the race, she was under She rose to national prominence in 2017 during Bharara joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as an Advisors and the chief economist in the U.S. consideration to be Biden’s running mate until her failed candidacy for governor of Georgia. associate before moving to Shereff , Friedman, Department of Commerce. She received her she withdrew. She sits on the Senate Judiciary Prior to her gubernatorial campaign, Abrams Hoff man & Goodman. Ph.D. from Harvard University. Committee and serves as ranking member of served as a member of the Georgia House of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Representatives from 2007 to 2017, rising to the Policy and Consumer Rights. After graduating position of minority leader. After graduating from the University of Chicago School of Law, from Yale Law School, Abrams was a special Klobuchar was a partner at a number of law tax counsel at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and firms before serving as county attorney in the deputy city attorney for the city of . Hennepin, Minnesota.

Sally Yates Doug Jones Vanita Gupta Attorney General Attorney General Attorney General Attorney General Yates is a partner at King & Spalding. In 2017, Senator Jones lost re-election on Tuesday Tom Perez is a politician and attorney who has Gupta is the president and CEO of the she served as acting attorney general for night but he has served in the Chamber been the Chair of the Democratic National Leadership Conference on Civil and Human 10 days in the Trump administration. During since 2018. Jon’s previously served as a US Committee since February 2017. Perez was Rights. During the Obama administration, the Obama administration, Yates served as Attorney for the Northern District of previously Assistant Attorney General for she served as the principal deputy assistant deputy attorney general. After graduating where he successfully prosecuted two KU Civil Rights (2009–2013) and United States attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in from the University of Georgia School of Law, Klux Klan members for the 1963 bombing of Secretary of Labor (2013–2017). Perez is a the U.S. Department of Justice. After receiving she became an associate at King & Spalding a Birmingham church that killed four African graduate of , Harvard Law her law degree from New York University, before serving as assistant U.S. attorney in the American girls. School, and the John F. Kennedy School Gupta was a lawyer at the NAACP and the Northern District of Georgia. of Government. He clerked for Judge Zita deputy legal director at the American Civil Weinshienk in Colorado prior to serving Liberties Union. as a federal civil rights prosecutor for the Department of Justice. He also worked for Senator and then served as the Director of the Off ice for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services in the final years of the Clinton administration.

Secretary of Agriculture

Neal Katyal David Zuckerman Heidi Heitkamp Cheri Bustos Attorney General Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Neal Katyal is an American lawyer and partner Zuckerman is the lieutenant governor of Former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp served The granddaughter of a hog farmer with strong at , as well as Paul and Patricia Vermont, a position he has held since 2017. as the first female senator elected from North farming roots, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Prior to this, he was a member of the Vermont Dakota from 2013-2019. During her Senate (D-IL) is a member of the House Agriculture Law Center. During the state Senate and House of Representatives. tenure, she served on the Senate Agriculture, and Appropriations Committees. Obama Administration, Katyal served as Acting After graduating from the University of Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, where Solicitor General of the United States from May Vermont, Zuckerman served on the Burlington she helped write, negotiate, and pass two 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served Electric Commission. He and his wife also built long-term, comprehensive Farm Bills which as an attorney in the Solicitor General’s off ice, an organic farm in Burlington. He served on Congress passed. and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the American Farm Bureau Federation Young the U.S. Justice Department. Katyal previously Farmers and Ranchers Committee. served as National Security Adviser in the U.S. Justice Department. He graduated from and then attended Yale Law School. After receiving his J.D. degree in 1995, Katyal clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

4 • A look at the Biden Administration 13 • Election Insight 2020 Secretary of Labor

Chellie Pingree William Spriggs Sharon Block Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Labor Secretary of Labor Secretary of Labor A former farmer and small business owner, Spriggs is a professor of economics at Howard Block is currently the executive director of the Sanders is an American politician who has Congresswoman Chellie Pingree serves University and chief economist to the AFL- Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law served as the junior United States senator from on the House Agriculture Committee and CIO. During the Obama administration, he School. In the Obama administration, she was Vermont since 2007 and as U.S. Representative House Appropriations Committee Agriculture served as assistant secretary for policy in the the principal deputy assistant secretary for for the state’s at-large congressional district Subcommittee. U.S. Department of Labor. He has served in policy and senior counselor to the secretary from 1991 to 2007. He is the longest-serving other governmental roles, including as senior at the U.S. Department of Labor. Before that, independent in U.S. congressional history, advisor and economist at the U.S. Department Block served as an attorney at the National although he has a close relationship with of Commerce and senior economist for the Labor Relations Board and senior counsel the Democratic Party, having caucused with Joint Economic Committee. After receiving to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and House and Senate Democrats for most of his his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Pensions Committee. congressional career. Sanders unsuccessfully Madison, Spriggs was an assistant professor at sought the Democratic Party nomination Norfolk State University and the North Carolina for president of the United States in 2016 Agricultural and Technical State University. and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Eric Garcetti Karen Bass Chuy Garcia Keisha Lance Bottoms Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of HUD Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles, , Bass has served as a Democratic member Garcia has served as a Democratic member Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American politician a position he has held since 2013. He was of the House of Representatives for of Congress for Illinois since 2018. He sits on and lawyer who is the 60th mayor of Atlanta, also a co-Chair of the Biden Vice Presidential California since 2013 and sits on the House the House Natural Resources Committee, Georgia. She was elected mayor in 2017. Before Selection Committee. He received his Ph.D. Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign the House Financial Services Committee and becoming mayor, she was a member of the from the London School of Economics. Aff airs Committee. Bass is the chair of the the House Transportation and Infrastructure Atlanta City Council, representing part of Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Bass was Committee. After graduating from the Southwest Atlanta. Bottoms was a prosecutor considered the favorite of many to be selected University of Illinois at Chicago, Garcia served and also represented children in juvenile court. as Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, but in the Off ice of the Chicago City Council, as In 2002, she became a magistrate judge in she was ultimately not chosen. Prior to joining a senator in the Illinois state Senate and as a Atlanta. In 2008, she ran unsuccessfully for a Congress, Bass was a member of the California member of the Board of Commissioners for judgeship on the Fulton Superior Court. She State Assembly and served as speaker of the Cook County, Illinois. earned a bachelor’s degree in communications Assembly. After graduating from California from A&M University, concentrating State University, she was a faculty member of in broadcast journalism. She earned a J.D. the Keck School of Medicine at the University degree from Georgia State University College of Southern California. of Law in 1994.

Secretary of Transportation

Robert Garcia Eric Garcetti Earl Blumenauer Beth Osborne Secretary of HUD Secretary of Transportation Secretary of Transportation Secretary of Transportation He is the current mayor of Long Beach, Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles, California, Blumenauer has served as a Democratic Osborne is the director of Transportation for California. He was first elected in the 2014 a position he has held since 2013. He is also co- member of Congress for Oregon since America. During the Obama administration, election and won reelection in 2018. A former chair of the Biden campaign’s Vice Presidential 1996. He sits on the House Ways and she served as acting assistant secretary for member of the Long Beach City Council, Selection Committee. He received his Ph.D. Means Committee and is a member of the transportation policy. Before that, Osborne was Garcia served as Vice Mayor from 2012 to 2014. from the London School of Economics. Subcommittee on Health and Chair of the a legislative assistant to Sen. Tom Carper (D- He is not only the city’s youngest and first Subcommittee on Trade. Prior to serving in DE) and Rep. Ron Klink (D-PA). She received her elected openly LGBT mayor, but also the first Congress, Blumenauer was a member of the law degree from Louisiana State University. person of color and Latino American to hold Commission on Higher Education for the state t h e o ff i c e of Oregon, a member of the Portland, Oregon, City Council and a member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. Blumenauer received his law degree from Lewis and Clark College.

5 • A look at the Biden Administration 14 • Election Insight 2020 Secretary of Health and Human Services

Ezekiel Emanuel Vivek Murthy Jack Markell Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Emanuel is the vice provost for global initiatives Slavitt is currently a senior advisor at the Murthy is a trustee at RAND Corporation and Markell currently serves on the board of at the University of Pennsylvania, a contributing Bipartisan Policy Center. During the Obama a member of the Biden campaign’s Public directors for the Graham Holdings Company opinion writer for , a senior administration, he was the administrator at the Health Advisory Committee. He previously and the board of trustees for the Annie Casey fellow at the Center for American Progress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. served as surgeon general during the Obama Foundation. He was the governor of Delaware and a member of the Biden campaign’s He previously served as an executive vice administration. After receiving his M.D. from from 2009 to 2017, serving on the White Public Health Advisory Committee. He was president at Optum, Inc. After graduating from Yale University, Murthy was an attending House State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task previously on the Editorial Advisory Board at the Harvard Business School, Slavitt served physician and instructor at Brigham and Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Thomson , a contributor to the Fox as CEO of Consumer Solutions Business at Women’s Hospital and co-founder and from 2013 to 2014. After graduating from the News Channel and a contributing writer to the UnitedHealth Group and as COO at Ingenix. president at Doctors for America. University of Chicago business school, he Journal of the American Medical Association. worked as a consultant at McKinsey and in During the Obama administration, he served senior management at Comcast. as special advisor for health policy in the Off ice of Management and Budget and as chair of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. After receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, he became a professor at the Harvard Medical School.

Secretary of Energy

Andrea Palm Mandy Cohen Jay Inslee Andy Levin Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Energy Secretary of Energy Palm has served as secretary of the Wisconsin Cohen has served as secretary for North Inslee, a former 2020 Democratic presidential Levin has served as a Democratic member Department of Health Services since January Carolina’s Department of Health and Human candidate, is the governor of Washington, of Congress for Michigan since 2019 and 2019. Prior to her current role, she held a Services since 2017. Prior to her current role, a position he has held since 2013. Before currently sits on the House Foreign Aff airs number of positions in the U.S. Department of she held a number of positions in the Centers becoming governor, Inslee was a member of Committee and the House Education and Health and Human Services during the Obama for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 Labor Committee. Before joining Congress, administration, rising to senior counselor for Obama administration, rising to chief operating to 1995 and again from 1999 to 2012. Prior to he was the acting director of the Michigan the secretary. During her tenure in Washington, off icer. Cohen received a medical degree his first term in the House, Inslee served in Department of Energy, Labor and Economic she also served as a senior advisor for health from Yale School of Medicine and a master’s the Washington House of Representatives. Growth and a senior policy advisor at the in the White House’s Off ice of Health Reform. in public health from the Harvard School of After receiving his law degree from Willamette American Federal of Labor and Congress of After receiving her master’s from Washington Public Health. University, Inslee was an attorney at Peters, Industrial Organizations. After receiving his law University in St. Louis, Palm served in the off ice Fowler and Inslee. degree from Harvard University, Levin became of Rep. Robert Matsui and as senior health a staff attorney at the U.S. Department of policy advisor to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton. Labor’s Commission on the Future of Worker- Management Relations.

Secretary of Veterans Aff airs Secretary of Homeland Security

Tammy Duckworth Jason Kander Vanita Gupta Secretary of Veterans Aff airs Secretary of Veterans Aff airs Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security Duckworth is a Democratic senator from Kander was most recently the secretary of Gupta is the president and CEO of the Castro most recently ran unsuccessfully for Illinois, a position she has held since state for Missouri, a position he held from Leadership Conference on Civil and Human the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. 2017. She sits on the Senate Armed 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a member Rights. During the Obama administration, During the Obama administration, he served Services Subcommittee on Personnel, the of the Missouri House of Representatives. He she served as the principal deputy assistant as the secretary of Housing and Urban Subcommittee on Readiness and Management received his law degree from the Georgetown attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in Development from 2014 to 2017. Before that, Support and the Subcommittee on Airland. University Law Center. the U.S. Department of Justice. After receiving he served as mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Before joining the Senate, Duckworth was a her law degree from New York University, beginning in 2009. Castro received his law member of the U.S. House of Representatives Gupta was a lawyer at the NAACP and the degree from Harvard University. from 2013 to 2017. During the Obama deputy legal director at the American Civil administration, she served as assistant Liberties Union. secretary for public and intergovernmental aff airs at the U.S. Department of Veterans Aff airs. After receiving her M.A. from George Washington University, she joined the Illinois Army National Guard and worked as a staff supervisor at the Rotary International headquarters in Illinois. Duckworth was also the director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Aff airs.

6 • A look at the Biden Administration 15 • Election Insight 2020 Suzanne Spaulding Juliette Kayyem Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is a Cuban-American lawyer who Demings is serving her second term as a Suzanne Spaulding is senior adviser for Juliette N. Kayyem is an American served as the Deputy Secretary of the United States member of Congress from Florida. She sits homeland security and director of the businessperson, author and host of the Department of Homeland Security from Dec. 23, on the House Permanent Select Committee Defending Democratic Institutions project WGBH podcast The SCIF. She serves as a 2013 to Oct. 31, 2016. He is a partner at WilmerHale. on Intelligence, as well as the Committees at the Center for Strategic and International national security analyst for CNN and is a Mayorkas practices in the areas of civil and criminal litigation, internal investigations, cybersecurity, crisis on the Judiciary and Homeland Security, and Studies (CSIS). She also served as a member weekly guest on Public Radio. She is management and strategic counseling. Alejandro is a member of the centrist New Democrat of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at Mayorkas served as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Coalition. Demings participated in the Judiciary Previously, she served as under secretary the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Immigration Services (USCIS), an Under Secretary Committee’s investigation into the Trump for the Department of Homeland Security Harvard, a member of Secretary ’s position within the Department of Homeland Security. administration’s handling of Special Counsel (DHS), where she led the National Protection Homeland Security Advisory Council, and a Nominated by President Obama in April 2009, he ’s investigation of Russian and Programs Directorate, now called member of the Council on Foreign Relations was unanimously confirmed by the United States interference in the 2016 election. She has the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and the Pacific Council on International Senate in August 2009. Mr. Mayorkas concluded his duties as Director of USCIS in 2013 to serve as also pushed for some gun control measures Security Agency. Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, a post for and additional resources to bolster counter- of Massachusetts[2] and a former Boston which he was also nominated by President Obama terrorism eff orts at the state and local levels. Globe columnist. and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In 1998, Sen. After receiving her M.P.A. from Webster recommended Mr. Mayorkas to be University, Demings was Orlando’s first female the United States Attorney for the Central District of police chief and a police off icer for 27 years. California.From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Mayorkas served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. Alejandro Mayorkas is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a J.D. from Loyola Law School. Secretary of Education

Lisa Monaco Pete Buttigieg Randi Weingarten Lily Eskelsen Garcia Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Education Secretary of Education Secretary of Education is an American federal prosecutor who Buttigieg entered the national spotlight during Weingarten is the president of the American Garcia is the president of the National was the Homeland Security Adviser to President the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He Federation of Teachers, a role she has held Education Association. She also serves Barack Obama, the chief counterterrorism advisor is a faculty fellow at the University of Notre since 2008. She is also a member of the Labor as a member of the President’s Advisory to the president. In this capacity, she was a statutory Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study and Advisory Committee for Trade negotiations Commission on Educational Excellence member of the United States Homeland Security Council. Monaco previously served as the Assistant previously served as mayor of South Bend, and Trade Policy for the U.S. Department of for Hispanics for the U.S. Department of Attorney General for National Security from 2011 Indiana. After attending Oxford University Labor and a member of the board of directors Education, a member of the board of directors to 2013, and as the Principal Deputy Assistant on a Rhodes Scholarship, Buttigieg was a for the Economic Policy Institute. During for the Economic Policy Institute, and she Attorney General in the Justice Department. In consultant at McKinsey & Co. and served in the the Obama administration, Weingarten was is the president of the National Education 2017, Monaco became a senior national security U.S. Navy Reserve, where he was deployed to a member of the Equity and Excellence Association’s Executive Committee. After analyst for CNN. In 2011, Monaco was appointed by Afghanistan. Commission for the U.S. Department of receiving a master of education from the President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Attorney Education. After receiving her law degree from University of Utah, Garcia served as president General for National Security. On January 25, 2013, President Barack Obama announced he would Yeshiva University, Weingarten was an attorney of the Utah Education Association. name Monaco to be his Assistant to the President at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the chief counterterrorism advisor to the President. She attended Harvard University and University of Chicago Law School.

United Nations Ambassador Director of National Intelligence

Pete Buttigieg Michael Wessel Tom Donilon United Nations Ambassador United Nations Ambassador Ambassodorship Director of National Intelligence Buttigieg entered the national spotlight during Wessel is the president of The Wessel Group Eric Holder served as the 82nd Attorney Donilon is chair of the BlackRock Investment the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He and a member of the U.S.-China and Security General of the United States from 2009 to Institute, senior counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, is currently a faculty fellow at the University Review Commission. From the 1970s through 2015. He graduated from Columbia College, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and of Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced the 1990s, he held multiple positions for and Columbia Law School. Following law International Aff airs and a member of the Study. He most recently served as mayor of Richard Gephardt, a former Democratic school, he left New York to work for the Public Center on Global Energy Policy Advisory South Bend, Indiana. After attending Oxford member of Congress from Missouri, rising Integrity Section of the Department of Justice Board at Columbia University. During the University on a Rhodes Scholarship, he was a to the position of general counsel. Wessel for 12 years. He next served as a judge of the 2008 presidential campaign, Donilon headed consultant at McKinsey & Co. and served in the received his law degree from George Superior Court of the District of Columbia President Obama’s general election debate U.S. Navy Reserve, where he was deployed to Washington University. before being appointed by President Bill preparation eff ort and later joined the Afghanistan. Clinton as United States Attorney for the administration as national security advisor. He District of Columbia and subsequently Deputy also chaired the administration’s transition at Attorney General. Following the Clinton the State Department and served as assistant to the president and principal deputy national administration, he worked at the law firm of security advisor. Prior to joining the Obama Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., administration, Donilon served as assistant representing the firm’s multinational corporate secretary of state and chief of staff at the State clients in litigation. He returned to Covington Department under President Bill Clinton. In & Burling, where he continues to practice addition to his public service, Donilon was corporate litigation, and is also involved with executive vice president for law and policy at eff orts at gerrymandering reform through the . Donilon received his law degree National Democratic Redistricting Committee. from the University of Virginia.

16 • Election Insight 2020 Federal Reserve Chair Securities and Exchange Commission

Jackie Speier Jerome Powell Allison Herren Lee Director of National Intelligence Federal Reserve Chair Federal Reserve Chair Securities and Exchange Commission Speier has represented California in Congress Powell was appointed chair of the Federal Yellen is a distinguished fellow in residence Lee was appointed by President Trump to the since 2008 and serves on the House Reserve (Fed) Board of Governors by President with the Brookings Institution’s Economic U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Trump in 2018 and a member of the board Studies Program, an advisor to the Magellan unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She has served for over a decade in various roles at as well as the Committees on Armed Services by President Obama in 2012. Prior to his Group and professor emerita at the University the SEC, including as counsel to Commissioner and Oversight and Reform. In her committee appointment as Fed chair, Powell served as an of California. She served as chair of the Federal Kara Stein, and as senior counsel in the positions, Speier has pushed for gun control, assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Reserve Board under President Obama, and Division of Enforcement’s Complex Financial management reform at the Pentagon, stronger Treasury Department under President George chair of the White House Council of Economic Instruments Unit. She has also served as a cyber-defenses and increased transparency in H.W. Bush. He was also a partner at the Carlyle Advisors under President Bill Clinton. Yellen special assistant U.S. attorney, was a member the Department of Defense’s budget. Speier Group and a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. Prior of the American Bar Association’s former received her law degree from the University Policy Center. Powell earned his law degree to serving under the Obama administration, Committee on Public Company Disclosure and of California Hastings College of the Law. She from Georgetown University. Yellen was president and CEO of the Federal participated on a USAID project in Armenia, previously served 18 years in the California Reserve Bank of San Francisco and professor assisting in the drafting of periodic reporting and disclosure provisions for a comprehensive state legislature. and lecturer at Harvard University and the law of the Republic of Armenia on securities London School of Economics. market regulation. Prior to government service, Lee was a partner at Sherman & Howard LLC, focusing on securities, antitrust and commercial litigation. Lee received her law degree from the University of Denver, where she was salutatorian, a Chancellor’s Scholar and served on the Law Review. Environmental Protection Agency Administrators

Timothy Massad Michael Barr Heather McTeer Toney Mary Nichols Securities and Exchange Commission Securities and Exchange Commission Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency Timothy Massad. Massad works as an Barr serves as dean of the Gerald R. Ford Administrator Administrator independent consultant and is an adjunct School of Public Policy at the University of She was the first female, first African American She serves as the Chairwoman of the professor at Georgetown University Law Michigan and as a professor at the University of and the youngest Mayor of Greenville, California Air Resources Board. She has Michigan Law School. He is also a nonresident Center. He served as commissioner of the Mississippi. In 2014, President Obama served on the Board under Governor Edmund senior fellow at the Center for American Commodities Futures Trading Commission appointed Toney as the Regional Administrator Brown (2011-2018, 1975-82), Governor Arnold Progress. Barr conducts research and writes (CFTC) from 2014 to 2017 and as the assistant about a wide range of issues in domestic and for EPA’s Southeast Region. She currently Schwarzenegger (2007-2010) and Governor secretary for financial stability at the U.S. international financial regulation. In the Obama serves as the Senior Director of the Moms Gavin Newsome (2019-present). During the Department of the Treasury during the Obama administration, Barr served on the National Clean Air Force. Clinton administration, she worked as EPA’s administration where he oversaw the Troubled Economic Council and as assistant secretary Assistant Administrator for the Off ice of Air Asset Relief Program (TARP). Prior to joining the for financial institutions in the Treasury and Radiation. Department of the Treasury, Massad served as Department, and he was a key architect of the a legal advisor to the Congressional Oversight Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Barr also served in Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, various roles in the Clinton administration, under the leadership of Elizabeth Warren. including as special assistant to Treasury Massad earned his bachelor’s and law degrees Secretary Robert E. Rubin, deputy assistant at Harvard, after which he became a partner in secretary of the treasury, special advisor to the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP. President Clinton and as a special advisor and counselor at the State Department. After receiving his law degree from Yale University, Barr served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Souter. Commissioners Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Bharat Ramamurti Elisha Tuku Mark Patterson Elizabeth Warren Commissioners Commissioners Commissioners Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ramamurti is a member of the Congressional Tuku is chief counsel on the Senate Banking, Patterson is general counsel for Senate Warren, a driving force behind the creation of Oversight Commission. Until mid-2019, he Housing and Urban Aff airs Committee, a Minority Leader (D-NY). the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, was senior counsel for Sen. Elizabeth Warren position he has held since 2013. Tuku also He has held other positions in Congress, is an advocate for lower- and middle-income (D-MA), serving as her senior economic advisor worked closely with SEC Commissioner including chief counsel to the Senate Finance families and a harsh critic of Wall Street and and later her senior counsel for banking and Elad Roisman for several years before his Committee in the 1990s. He left Congress large banks. Her tenure would likely usher economic policy. After Warren suspended her appointment to the agency.Tuku completed in 2004 to become a vice president and in an era of strong consumer protections campaign, Ramamurti joined the Roosevelt his law degree at New York University before managing director at Goldman Sachs and later and restrictions on the corporate and Institute to lead the Corporate Power program, spending a decade in private practice. He then returned to Washington to serve as the Senate banking sectors. a research initiative dedicated to identifying spent nearly 10 years as an executive director confirmation coordinator for the Obama-Biden and increasing awareness of the impacts of at Morgan Stanley. presidential campaign. President Obama large corporations, including the eff ects of appointed Patterson to serve as chief of staff to capital decisions such as stock buybacks and the Treasury Department secretary. He earned corporate consolidation. Ramamurti received his law degree from the Catholic University his law degree from Yale University. of America. 8 • A look at the Biden Administration 17 • Election Insight 2020 Gregory Meeks Katie Porter Deepak Gupta Kara Stein Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Meeks is a member of Congress from New Porter is a freshman Democrat from California Gupta is the founding principal of Gupta Stein is a professor at several law schools and York serving his 11th term. He is a member of and sits on the House Financial Services Wessler PLLC, where he focuses on the previously served as commissioner of the the New Democrat Coalition and serves on the Committee and the House Oversight and Supreme Court, appellate and complex U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission litigation. He is also a lecturer at Harvard Law House Financial Services Committee, where Reform Committee. Prior to being elected to (SEC) from 2013 to 2019. She advocated for School. In 2010, he argued AT&T Mobility v. he chairs the Subcommittee on Consumer Congress in 2018, Porter was a law professor sweeping changes to the SEC’s rules and Concepcion, a landmark arbitration case, Protection and Financial Institutions. Prior to for nearly two decades, most recently at the and has since played a leading role in the practices for the digital age and was integral his election to Congress, Meeks worked as University of California Irvine. In 2012, then- debate over forced arbitration clauses. Before in the SEC’s shortening of the settlement a Queens County assistant , California Attorney General founding his firm in 2012, Gupta was senior cycle for equities and fixed income trading, a prosecutor for a special anti-narcotics appointed Porter as California’s independent counsel for litigation and senior counsel enhancing clearing agency standards and taskforce, and chief administrative judge monitor of banks as part of a $25 billion for enforcement strategy at the Consumer furthering the adoption of machine-readable for New York State’s workers’ compensation nationwide mortgage settlement. Porter Financial Protection Bureau. Gupta previously disclosures wherever possible. Prior to joining system. In 1992, he was elected to the New earned her law degree from Harvard University. served as an attorney at Public Citizen the SEC, Stein served as senior policy advisor Litigation Group, where he founded and York State Assembly, where he served until for securities and banking matters for Sen. Jack directed the Consumer Justice Project and 1998. Meeks earned his law degree from Reed (D-RI). From 2009 to 2013, she was the was the Supreme Court Assistance Project . fellow. He also worked at the U.S. Department staff director of the Securities, Insurance, and of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the ACLU’s Investment Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate National Prison Project and Americans United Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban for the Separation of Church and State. Gupta Aff airs. After receiving her law degree from Yale studied law at Georgetown University before University, Stein was an associate at Wilmer, clerking for Judge Lawrence K. Karlton of the Cutler & Pickering, an assistant professor U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of with the University of Dayton School of Law, California. an advocacy fellow with the Georgetown University Law Center and a Skadden Public Interest fellow.

CIA Director EEOC Federal Elections Commission

Morgan Harper Stacey Abrams Stacey Abrams Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CIA Director EEOC Federal Elections Commission Harper was most recently a candidate for Michael Morell is an American former career Abrams serves as co-owner and COO of Family Abrams serves as co-owner and COO of Family Congress, unsuccessfully attempting to oust intelligence analyst. He served as the deputy Room, Inc. and as a member of the board of Room, Inc. and as a member of the board of Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) in the Democratic director of the Central Intelligence Agency directors for the Center for American Progress. directors for the Center for American Progress. primary for Ohio’s 3rd congressional district. from 2010 to 2013 and twice as its acting She also founded and runs Fair Fight Action, She also founded and runs Fair Fight Action, Harper previously worked at the Consumer director, first in 2011 and then from 2012 to an organization dedicated to addressing voter an organization dedicated to addressing voter Financial Protection Bureau in the Local 2013. He is now Senior Counselor and the suppression, especially in Georgia and Texas. suppression, especially in Georgia and Texas. Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). She Global Chairman of the Geo-Political Risk She rose to national prominence in 2017 during She rose to national prominence in 2017 during graduated from Stanford Law School. Practice at Beacon Global Strategies LLC, a her failed candidacy for governor of Georgia. her failed candidacy for governor of Georgia. consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Morell Prior to her gubernatorial campaign, Abrams Prior to her gubernatorial campaign, Abrams also served as Director for Intelligence, the served as a member of the Georgia House of served as a member of the Georgia House of Agency’s top analyst, from 2008 to 2010. He Representatives from 2007 to 2017, rising to the Representatives from 2007 to 2017, rising to the served as the CIA’s Associate Deputy Director, position of minority leader. After graduating position of minority leader. After graduating the Agency’s top administrator, from 2006 to from Yale Law School, Abrams was a special from Yale Law School, Abrams was a special 2008. In May 2010, Morell was sworn in as the tax counsel at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and tax counsel at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and deputy director of the CIA. From July 1, 2011 to the deputy city attorney for the city of Atlanta. the deputy city attorney for the city of Atlanta. September 6, 2011, Morell served his first stint as acting director of the CIA, replacing when he was confirmed as Secretary of Defense. On November 9, 2012, Morell once again became acting director after the resignation of David Petraeus.

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