July 23, 2009
Since his election as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama ’91 has been tapping Harvard Law School alumni and faculty members in putting together his administration. Those named to top-level jobs in the incoming administration include:
Faculty:
David Barron ’94 Principal deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice
Jody L. Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95 Counselor for energy and climate change, White House Office of Energy and Climate Change
Elena Kagan ’86 Solicitor general of the United States
Daniel J. Meltzer ’75 Principal deputy counsel to the president, Office of the White House Counsel
Cass R. Sunstein ’78 Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
Alumni
Preeta Bansal ’89 General counsel and senior policy adviser, Office of Management and Budget
Jeremy B. Bash ’98 Chief of staff for CIA Director Leon Panetta
Jacqueline A. Berrien ’86 Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Charles Blanchard ’85 General counsel, Department of the U.S. Air Force
Jason E. Bordoff ’04 Associate director for climate change at the Council on Environmental Quality
Cassandra Q Butts ’91 Deputy White House counsel
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle ’83 Director, White House Office for Health Reform
Norman L. Eisen ’91 Special counsel for ethics and government reform, Office of the White House Counsel
Chai R. Feldblum ’85 Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Michael Froman ’91 Deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs
Jocelyn Frye ‘88 Deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and director of policy and projects for the first lady
Juan Garcia ’92 Assistant secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, in the Department of Defense
Julius Genachowski ’91 Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Ian H. Gershengorn ’93 Deputy assistant attorney general, Department of Justice
Michael J. Gottlieb ’03 Associate counsel, Office of the White House Counsel
Danielle C. Gray ’03 Associate counsel, Office of the White House Counsel
William Gunn ’86 General counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale ’91 Deputy general counsel of the Department of Commerce’s Office of General Counsel
Scott Blake Harris ’76 General counsel, Department of Energy
Emily Hewitt ’78 Chief judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Ketanji Jackson ’96 Member, U.S. Sentencing Commission
Tim Kaine ’83 Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Helen Kanovsky ’76 General counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Juliette Kayyem ’95 Assistant secretary for intergovernmental programs, Department of Homeland Security
Ron Klain ’87 Chief of staff to the vice president
Harold Hongju Koh ’80 Legal adviser, Department of State
David Kris ’91 Assistant attorney general, head of National Security Division, Department of Justice
Michael E. Leiter ’00 Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Stuart A. Levey ’89 Undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence
Wilma Lewis ’81 Assistant secretary for Land and Mineral Management at the Department of the Interior
Chris Lu ’91 White House Cabinet secretary
Robert Malley ’90 Envoy to Egypt and Syria
Raymond Mabus ’76 Secretary, U.S. Navy
Demetrios Marantis ’93 Deputy U.S. trade representative
Tim Massad ’84 Chief counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program
Andrew McLaughlin ’94 Deputy chief technology officer for the Obama Administration
David W. Ogden ’81 Deputy attorney general, Department of Justice
Quentin Palfrey ’02 Associate general counsel of the Department of Commerce’s Office of General Counsel
Tom Perez ’87 Assistant attorney general, head of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Thomas Perrelli ’91 Associate attorney general, Department of Justice
Samantha Power ’99 Senior director for multilateral affairs, National Security Council
Stephen Preston ’83 General counsel Central Intelligence Agency
Blake Roberts ’06 Deputy associate counsel to the president, Office of the White House Counsel
Anne-Marie Slaughter ’85 Director of policy planning, State Department
Larry Strickling ’76 Assistant secretary for Communications and Information, Department of Commerce
Todd D. Stern ’77 Special envoy for climate change
Willard Tom ’79 General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission
Barry White ’67 Ambassador, Norway