Appointees
| Name | Position | Other Affiliations |
| Elizabeth Alexander | Press Secretary to the Vice President | Communications Director in Biden's Senate office |
| David Axelrod | Senior Advisor | Political consultant |
| Melody Barnes | Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council | Obama Domestic Policy Advisor |
| Jared Bernstein | Chief Economist and Economic Policy Advisor to the Vice President | Economist, Economic Policy Institute; Deputy Chief Economist, Department of Labor, 1995-1996 |
| Antony Blinken | National Security Advisor to the Vice President | Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| Lisa Brown | White House Staff Secretary | Executive Director, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; Counsel to Vice President Gore; Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice; Partner, Shea & Gardner (now Goodwin Procter) |
| Carol Browner | Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change | Principal, The Albright Group |
| Cassandra Butts | Deputy White House Counsel | Senior vice president for domestic policy at the Center for American Progress |
| Louis E. Caldera | Director of White House Military Office | Former Secretary of the Army, 1998-2001 |
| Jay Carney | Assistant to the Vice President and Director of Communications | Washington Bureau Chief for TIME Magazine |
| Steven Chu | Secretary of Energy | Professor at the University of California-Berkeley; director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Hillary Clinton | Secretary of State | U.S. Sen. (D-N.Y.) |
| Gregory Craig | White House Counsel | Partner, Williams & Connolly |
| Tom Daschle | Health Czar | Former U.S. Sen. (D-S.D.); Special policy advisor, Alston + Bird |
| Tom Donilon | Deputy National Security Advisor | Partner, O'Melveny & Myers |
| Mike Donilon | Counselor to the Vice President | advisor and consultant to Vice President-elect Biden since 1981 |
| Shaun Donovan | Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | housing commissioner for New York City |
| Arne Duncan | Secretary of Education | CEO, Chicago public schools. |
| Rahm Emanuel | Chief of Staff | U.S. Rep. (D-Ill.) |
| Jonathan Favreau | Director of Speechwriting | Director of Speechwriting for the Obama campaign; speechwriter on Obama's Senate Staff |
| Michele Flournoy | Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) | Principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction and deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy under Clinton, charter member of Center for a New American Security (CNAS) |
| Patrick Gaspard | Director of the Office of Political Affairs | Executive vice president for politics and legislation for the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East labor union |
| Robert Gates | Secretary of Defense | Secretary of Defense |
| Timothy Geithner | Secretary of the Treasury | President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Gary Gensler | Chariman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission | former Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance under Clinton |
| Robert Gibbs | Press Secretary | Spokesman for Obama's presidential campaign |
| Mark Gitenstein | Advisory Board | Partner, Mayer Brown |
| Austan Goolsbee | Economic Recovery Advisory Board | Univ. of Chicago economist/adviser |
| Robert F. Hale | Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) | Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers; Assistant Secretary of the Air Force |
| Sudafi Henry | Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) |
| Heather A. Higginbottom | Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council | Policy Director, Obama for America; Legislative Director, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.); Deputy National Policy Director, Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign |
| Alan Hoffman | Vice President Deputy Chief of Staff | senior vice president for external relations for the University of California system |
| Cynthia Hogan | Counsel to the Vice President | Long-time staffer to Vice President-Elect Biden |
| Eric Holder | Attorney General | Deputy attorney general for Clinton; Former lobbyist, Covington & Burling |
| John Holdren | Co-chair, Council of Advisers on Science and Technology | Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at Harvard |
| Lisa Jackson | Administrator of the EPA | Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
| Valerie Jarrett | Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations | The Habitat Co. |
| Dawn Johnsen | Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel | Professor of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington; former Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel under Clinton |
| Jeh Johnson | General Counsel, Department of Defense | Partner, Paul Weiss; former Air Force General Counsel under Clinton |
| Camille Johnston | Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady | former Director of Communications for Mrs. Tipper Gore |
| James Jones | National Security Adviser | Chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States. Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) (2003-2006) and the Commander of the United States European Command |
| Elena Kagan | Solicitor General | Dean of Harvard Law School |
| Ron Kirk | U.S. Trade Representative | Former Mayor of Dallas |
| Ronald Klain | Vice President Chief of Staff | Lobbyist, O'Melveny & Myers, former chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore |
| Ray LaHood | Secretary of Transportation | Representative, R-Ill. |
| Jeanne Lambrew | Deputy Director of the White House Office of Health Reform | Professor,Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas;Senior Fellow,Center for American Progress |
| Eric Lander | Co-chair, Council of Advisers on Science and Technology | Professor at MIT |
| Katie McCormick Lelyveld | Press Secretary for the First Lady | Michelle Obama's Director of Communications; formerly of The Glover Park Group |
| Jacob "Jack" Lew | Deputy Secretray of State | COO of Citigroup's Alternative Investments unit, former OMB director, former executive vice president at New York University |
| Chris Lu | Cabinet Secretary | Senior advisor for Obama '08. Former chief of staff in Obama's Senate office. |
| Jane Lubchenco | Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Professor of Marine Biology, Oregon State University |
| William Lynn | Deputy Secretary of Defense | Comptroller of the Pentagon during the Clinton administration |
| Shawn Maher | Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs for the United States Senate | Staff Director and General Counsel to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs |
| Alyssa Mastromonaco | Director of Scheduling and Advance | Director of Scheduling and Advance for the Obama campaign, Director of Scheduling for Obama's Senate office |
| Terrell McSweeny | Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President | Issues director to Biden during the campaign; Worked on the Clark campaign in 2004 and the Gore campaign in 2000 |
| James Messina | Deputy Chief of Staff | Chief of staff to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) |
| Karen Mills | Administrator of the Small Business Administration | MMP Group Inc |
| Ellen Moran | Director of Communications | Executive Director, EMILY's List |
| Cecilia Munoz | Director of Intergovernmental Affairs | Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza |
| Semonti Mustaphi | Deputy Press Secretary for the First Lady | Michelle Obama's Deputy Communications Director |
| Rob Nabors | OMB Deputy Director | Staff Director of the House Appropriations Committee |
| Janet Napolitano | Secretary of Homeland Security | Governor of Arizona, former U.S. attorney |
| Jackie Norris | Chief of Staff to the First Lady | Senior advisor to the Obama Presidential Campaign; former high school history teacher |
| David Ogden | Deputy Attorney General | Partner and Co-Chair, Government and Regulatory Litigation Practice Group, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr |
| Peter Orszag | OMB Director | Director, Congressional Budget Office |
| Leon Panetta | Director of the CIA | Professor at Santa Clara University; former Chief of Staff to President Clinton |
| Thomas Perelli | Associate Attorney General | Managing Partner of the D.C. office of Jenner & Block; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division under Clinton |
| Dan Pfeiffer | Deputy Director of Communications | Spokesman for Sen. Even Bayh (D-Ind.) |
| Susan Rice | Ambassador to the United Nations | Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution |
| Bill Richardson | Secretary of Commerce | Governor of New Mexico |
| Desiree Rogers | White House Social Secretary | President of Social Networking, Allstate Financial; former utilities president of Chicago-based Peoples Energy |
| Christina Romer | Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors | Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley |
| Peter Rouse | Senior Advisor | Chief of Staff, Sen. Barack Obama |
| Catherine M. Russell | Chief of Staff for Dr. Jill Biden | Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton administration |
| Evan Ryan | Assistant to the Vice President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison | Deputy Campaign Manager to Biden during the primary, staffer to Hillary Clinton from 1994-2000 |
| Ken Salazar | Secretary of the Interior | U.S. Sen (D-Colo.) |
| Mary Schapiro | Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission | CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
| Phil Schiliro | Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs | Former Chief of Staff, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) |
| Eric Shinseki | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Chief of Staff, U.S. Army |
| Elizabeth Sears Smith | Deputy Cabinet Secretary | Chief of Staff for Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) |
| Hilda Solis | Secretary of Labor | U.S. Rep (D-Calif.) |
| James Steinberg | Deputy Secretray of State | Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs; Served as deputy national security advisor to President Clinton during Clinton's second term. |
| Michael Strautmanis | Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison | Senior advisor to Obama '08; former chief counsel and deputy chief of staff in Obama's Senate office. |
| Lawrence Summers | Director of the National Economic Council | Secretary of Treasury under Clinton |
| Mona Sutphen | Deputy Chief of Staff | Managing Directory, Stonebridge International |
| Dan Tarullo | Member of the Federal Reserve Board | Professor, Georgetown University; formerly President Clinton's personal representative to the G8 |
| Christina M. Tchen | Director of Public Liaison | Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom |
| Annie Tomasini | Deputy Press Secretary to the Vice President | former Press Secretary in Biden's Senate office |
| Dan Turton | Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs for the United States House | Majority Staff Director for the House Committee on Rules |
| Harold Varmus | Co-chair, Council of Advisers on Science and Technology | President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Nobel Prize winner; former director of the NIH |
| Moises Vela | Director of Administration for the Office of the Vice President | Former CFO & Senior advisor to Vice President Al Gore |
| Tom Vilsack | Secretary of Agriculture | Former Democratic Governor of Iowa |
| Paul Volcker | Economic Recovery Advisory Board | Former Chairman, Federal Reserve, 1979-1987 |
| Melissa Winter | Deputy Chief of Staff to the First Lady | Traveling Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama during the campaign; former staffer for Norman Mineta (D-Calif.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) |
| Heather Zichal | Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality | Director for Energy, Environment and Agriculture for the Obama Campaign |
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