Administration of Barack H. Obama, 2009 Nominations Submitted to the Senate December 25, 2009 The following list does not include promotions of members of the Uniformed Services, nominations to the Service Academies, or nominations of Foreign Service Officers. Submitted January 20 Steven Chu, of California, to be Secretary of Energy. Hillary Rodham Clinton, of New York, to be Secretary of State. Thomas Andrew Daschle, of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Shaun L.S. Donovan, of New York, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Arne Duncan, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Education. Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be Secretary of the Treasury. Eric H. Holder, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Attorney General. Lisa Perez Jackson, of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Ronald Kirk, of Texas, to be U.S. Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Ray LaHood, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Transportation. Janet Ann Napolitano, of Arizona, to be Secretary of Homeland Security. Peter R. Orszag, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Susan E. Rice, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and the Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations. 1 Susan E. Rice, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations. Christina Duckworth Romer, of California, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Edward P. Lazear. Kenneth Lee Salazar, of Colorado, to be Secretary of the Interior. Eric K. Shinseki, of Hawaii, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Hilda L. Solis, of California, to be Secretary of Labor. Thomas J. Vilsack, of Iowa, to be Secretary of Agriculture. Dennis Cutler Blair, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of National Intelligence, vice J. Michael McConnell, resigned. Michele A. Flournoy, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, vice Eric S. Edelman, resigned. Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a term expiring April 13, 2012, vice Rueben Jeffery III, resigned. Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, vice Rueben Jeffery III, resigned. Austan Dean Goolsbee, of Illinois, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Katherine Baicker, resigned. Robert F. Hale, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), vice Tina Westby Jonas, resigned. John P. Holdren, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, vice John M. Marburger III. Jeh Charles Johnson, of New York, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense, vice William J. Haynes II, resigned. Jacob J. Lew, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources (new position). 2 Jane Lubchenco, of Oregon, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, vice Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., resigned. William J. Lynn III, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, vice Gordon England. Robert L. Nabors II, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Stephen S. McMillin, resigned. Cecilia Elena Rouse, of California, to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, vice Donald B. Marron, resigned. Mary L. Schapiro, of the District of Columbia, to be a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission for a term expiring June 5, 2014, vice Christopher Cox, resigned. James Braidy Steinberg, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of State, vice John D. Negroponte. Nancy Helen Sutley, of California, to be a member of the Council on Environmental Quality, vice James Laurence Connaughton. Daniel K. Tarullo, Of Massachusetts, to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of 14 years from February 1, 2008, vice Randall S. Kroszner, term expired. Submitted January 26 Elena Kagan, of Massachusetts, to be Solicitor General of the United States, vice Gregory G. Garre, resigned. David W. Ogden, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General, vice Mark R. Filip. Submitted January 27 Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be the U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the African Development Bank for a term of 5 years; U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank; U.S. Governor of the African Development Fund; U.S. Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vice Henry M. Paulson, Jr., resigned. Submitted January 30 3 Leon E. Panetta, of California, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, vice General Michael V. Hayden, United States Air Force. Thomas John Perrelli, of Virginia, to be Associate Attorney General, vice Kevin J. O'Connor, resigned. Withdrawn February 9 Thomas Andrew Daschle, of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, which was sent to the Senate on January 20, 2009. Submitted February 11 David S. Kris, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice J. Patrick Rowan, resigned. Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen, of Indiana, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Jack Landman Goldsmith III, resigned. Lanny A. Breuer, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Alice S. Fisher, resigned. Christine Anne Varney, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Thomas O. Barnett, resigned. Submitted February 25 Jane Holl Lute, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, vice Paul A. Schneider, resigned. Tony West, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General, vice Gregory G. Katsas, resigned. Submitted February 27 David J. Hayes, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, vice Patricia Lynn Scarlett, resigned. Karen Gordon Mills, of Maine, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration, vice Steven C. Preston, resigned. Submitted March 3 Seth David Harris, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, vice Howard Radzely, resigned. Submitted March 4 John Berry, 4 of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management for a term of 4 years, vice Linda M. Springer, resigned. Ronald C. Sims, of Washington, to be Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, vice Romolo A. Bernardi, resigned. Submitted March 10 Sherburne B. Abbott, of Texas, to be an Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, vice Duncan T. Moore, resigned. David S. Cohen, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing, Department of the Treasury, vice Patrick M. O'Brien, resigned. Dana G. Gresham, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, vice Simon Charles Gros. Alan B. Krueger, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Phillip L. Swagel, resigned. James N. Miller, Jr., of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, vice Christopher Ryan Henry. John Morton, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, vice Julie L. Myers, resigned. Submitted March 11 Esther Brimmer, of the District of Colombia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (International Organization Affairs), vice Brian H. Hook, resigned. Jonathan Z. Cannon, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, vice Marcus C. Peacock, resigned. Ivo H. Daalder, of Virginia, to be U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Karl Winfrid Eikenberry, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Ivan K. Fong, of Ohio, to be General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, vice Philip J. Perry, resigned. 5 Philip H. Gordon, of the District of Colombia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (European and Eurasian Affairs), vice Daniel Fried, resigned. W. Scott Gould, of the District of Colombia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, vice Gordon H. Mansfield, resigned. Christopher R. Hill, of Rhode Island, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Iraq. Richard Rahul Verma, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Legislative Affairs), vice Matthew A. Reynolds, resigned. Melanne Verveer, of the District of Colombia, to be Ambassador at Large for Women's Global Issues. Submitted March 12 Thomas L. Strickland, of Colorado, to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife, vice R. Lyle Laverty. Alexander Vershbow, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, vice Mary Beth Long, resigned. Submitted March 16 Ladda Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Public and Intergovernmental Affairs), vice Lisette M. Mondello, resigned. R. Gil Kerlikowske, of Washington, to be Director of National Drug Control Policy, vice John P. Walters, resigned. Roy W. Kienitz, of Pennsylvania, to be Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, vice Jeffrey Shane, resigned. Gary Locke, of Washington, to be Secretary of Commerce. Demetrios J. Marantis, of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, vice Peter F.