For Part I, State through Defense, follow this link.
As President Obama and his department and agency heads have nominated and appointed officials over the last few months, I have been compiling them into a single document. Other people can probably make more use of this document than I can, and can certainly format it more prettily than I have. The only claim to originality I make is that I have never found a list this complete -- a sort of proto-Plum Book of the Obama Administration -- anywhere on the internet, and I have searched for it. Indeed, it was the Plum Book that served as my inspiration. At any rate, with my second daughter, six weeks old, quite rightly demanding a healthy share of our attention, and with plenty of work to do at my solo law practice, I need to pass it on to you all to do with as you will.
EDIT: Because the entire list appears, at least in preview, to exceed the number of lines possible to post in a single diary, I will have to post this over multiple days. In Part II, we'll look at the Departments of Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, and Health and Human Services. Also, this was beautifully formatted in Word but I am having a hard time getting it to look nice here. I didn't want to use a table because I wanted to be able to nest the hierarchies. sigh
It bears emphasis that this is a rough document meant more as a starting point for data than an authoritative reference. I have included actual, verifiable nominees and appointees alongside expected and even rumored ones. I have mixed and matched current job titles with prior job titles. I have gone very far down the organizational hierarchy in some spots and barely past the top level in others. Some people or groups are undoubtedly misplaced in their respective chains of command. Some appointees listed as holdovers from the Bush Administration may actually be career incumbents in nonpolitical positions. And I have not included any links because it is all I can do to find the time to post this.
Nonetheless, I think this may prove useful in some ways. My fervent wish is that by setting it loose others will take it farther. I will feel fortunate if there is any use folks can make of it.
Some final notes on convention: I have omitted professional titles and military ranks, and have generally used officials' nicknames rather than given names when known. I tend to use the title of the office or bureau rather than the title of the position (lots of omitted "assistant secretary"s and "assistant attorney general"s). And so forth.
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Department of Justice
Attorney General Eric Holder
Chief of Staff Kevin Ohlson
Counselor John Bies
Counselor James Garland
Counselor for National Security Matters Amy Jeffress
Counselor for Executive Branch Relations Margaret Richardson
Counsel Aaron Lewis
Counsel Monty Wilkinson
Deputy Attorney General David Ogden
Chief of Staff and Counselor Stuart Delery
Senior Counsel Eric Columbus
Senior Counsel Ed Siskel
Counsel Chad Golder
Counsel Daphna Renan
Principal Associate DAG Kathryn Ruemmler
Associate DAG Neil MacBride
Associate DAG (for national security) Lisa Monaco
Associate DAG Donald Verrilli
Criminal Division Lanny Breuer
Counselor Steven Fagell
Principal Deputy Rita Glavin (acting)
National Security Division David Kris
Deputy Matthew Olson (holdover)
Office of Legislative Affairs Ronald Weich
Office of Legal Counsel Dawn Johnsen
Principal Deputy David Barron
Deputy Marty Lederman
Deputy Daniel Koffsky (holdover)
Office of Legal Policy Christopher Schroeder
Deputy Rajesh De
Deputy Kevin Jones (holdover)
US Parole Commission, Chair
Vice Chair
Parole Commissioner
Parole Commissioner
Parole Commissioner
Executive Office for US Attorneys Marshall Jarrett
Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli
Counsel Brian Hauck
Principal Deputy AAG
Antitrust Division Christine Varney
Deputy Scott Hammond (holdover)
Civil Division Tony West
Counselor David Anderson
Deputy Michael Hertz (holdover)
Deputy (appellate) Beth Brinkmann
Civil Rights Division Tom Perez
Deputy Loretta King (holdover)
Environmental and Natural Resources Division Ronald Welch?
Deputy John Cruden (holdover)
Tax Division Mary Smith
Deputy John DiCicco (holdover)
Office of Justice Programs
Principal Deputy Laurel Robinson
Deputy Beth McGarry (holdover)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Deputy Director Michael Sinclair (holdover)
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Deputy Director for Policy and Management James Burch (holdover)
National Institute of Justice
Chief of Staff Kristina Rose (holdover)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
Associate Director Jeffrey Slowikowski (holdo)
Office for Victims of Crime
Associate Director Joye Frost (holdover)
Community Relations Service
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Chair
Member
Member
Office on Violence Against Women
Deputy Director Catherine Pierce (holdover)
Solicitor General Elena Kagan
Assistant Ginger Anders
Principal Deputy Neal Katyal
Deputy Edwin Kneedler (holdover)
Inspector General
Office of Professional Responsibility Mary Brown
Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert Mueller (holdover)
Drug Enforcement Administration Michele Leonhart (acting)
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Kenneth Melson (acting)
United States Marshals Service John Clark (holdover)
(Federal Bureau of Prisons) (Career)
(spokesperson) Matt Miller
Department of the Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar
Chief of Staff Tom Strickland (currently)
Senior Advisor for Economic Recovery Chris Henderson
Deputy Secretary David Hayes
Solicitor [equivalent to General Counsel] Hilary Tompkins
Policy Management and Budget Rhea Suh
Deputy for Policy and Economic Development George Skibine
Land and Minerals Management
Bureau of Land Management
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement
Water and Science Anne Castle
Bureau of Reclamation Michael Connor
Geological Survey
Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland (nominated)
National Park Service
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Indian Affairs Larry EchoHawk
Special Trustee for American Indians
National Indian Gaming Commission
Inspector General
Department of Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack
Chief of Staff John Norris
Deputy Carole Jett
Special Assistant David Lazarus
Special Adviser Mike Neruda
Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan
Chief of Staff Doug O'Brien
Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Jim Miller
Deputy for Domestic Affairs Michael Scuse
Deputy for International Affairs Bud Philbrook
Undersecretary for Marketing and Development Programs
Deputy Cindy Smith (acting)
Undersecretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager
Deputy Cheryl Cook
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service Jonathan Adelstein
Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon
Deputy Janey Thornton
Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment
Forest Service (Career)
Undersecretary for Research, Education, and Economics Rajiv Shah
Undersecretary for Food Safety
General Counsel
Administration
Congressional Relations Krysta Harden
Civil Rights
Chief Financial Officer
Inspector General
Department of Commerce
Secretary Gary Locke
Deputy Secretary
General Counsel Cameron Kerr
Undersecretary for International Trade Frank Sánchez
Import Administration
Market Access and Compliance
Manufacturing and Services
Director General of US Foreign Commercial Services
Undersecretary for Economic Affairs
Undersecretary for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Jane Lubchenko
Administrator
Deputy Mary Glackin
Chief Scientist
Undersecretary for Intellectual Property and PTO Director
Undersecretary for Industry and Security
Export Administration
Export Enforcement
Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs April Boyd
Economic Development
Census Bureau Robert Groves
Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling
Deputy Anna Gomez (holdover)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Inspector General
(spokesperson) Isaac Baker
Department of Labor
Secretary Hilda Solis
Deputy Secretary Seth Harris
Solicitor [equivalent to General Counsel] Patricia Smith
Administration and Management Michael Kerr
Deputy Edward Hugler (holdover)
Policy
Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs Brian Kennedy
Employment and Training Jane Oates
Employment Standards
Wage and Hour Division Lorelei Boylan
Employee Benefits Security Administration Phyllis Borzi
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Jordan Barab (acting)
Mine Safety and Health
Public Affairs
Veterans’ Employment and Training Ray Jefferson
Disability Employment Policy Kathy Martinez
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Women’s Bureau
Chief Financial Officer
Inspector General
Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
Chief of Staff Laura Petrou
Deputy Bill Corr
Resources and Technology
National Coordinator for Health Information David Blumenthal
Technology
Preparedness and Response
Planning and Evaluation
Public Affairs Jenny Backus
Health (Public Health and Science) Howard Koh
Surgeon General Steven Galson (acting)
Legislation
Inspector General
Aging (Commissioner for Aging) Edwin Walker (acting)
Children and Families Curtis Coy (acting)
Commissioner, Administration for Children,
Youth, and Families
Commissioner, Administration for Native
Americans
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mark Miller
Indian Health Service Yvette Roubideaux
Commissioner of Food and Drugs Peggy Hamburg
Deputy Joshua Sharfstein
National Institutes of Health Raynard Kington (acting)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration Eric Broderick (acting)
Centers for Disease Control William Gimson (acting)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Director Carolyn Clancy
Health Resources and Services Administration Mary Wakefield
General Counsel