Thomas James Vilsack is an American politician serving as the 32nd United States secretary of agriculture in the Biden administration. He previously served in the role from 2009 to 2017 during the Obama administration. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 40th governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007.
Christopher John Dodd is an American lobbyist,lawyer,and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.
William Blaine Richardson III is an American politician,author,and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was also the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration,a U.S. congressman,chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention,and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
O'Melveny &Myers LLP is an American multinational law firm founded in Los Angeles,California in 1885. The firm employs approximately 740 lawyers and has offices in California,Washington,D.C.,New York City,Beijing,Brussels,Hong Kong,London,Seoul,Shanghai,Singapore,and Tokyo.
Brad Rogers Carson is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma who served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2015 to 2016. In that role,he initiated a number of notable reforms to include opening up all combat positions to women,open service by transgender service members,and new recruiting and retention practices.
Arizona's 1st congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of Arizona,covering northeastern Maricopa County. Before 2023,geographically,it was the eleventh-largest congressional district in the country and included much of the state outside the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas. From 2013 through 2022,it also included the Navajo Nation,the Hopi reservation,and the Gila River Indian Community,with 25% of the population being Native American. At that time,the district had more Native Americans than any other congressional district in the United States. In the 2022 elections,David Schweikert was elected in the redefined district. It was one of 18 districts that voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election while being won or held by a Republican in 2022.
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Washington,D.C.-based 527 organization founded in 1983,consisting of U.S. state and territorial governors affiliated with the Democratic Party. The mission of the organization is to provide party support to the election and re-election of Democratic gubernatorial candidates. The DGA's Republican counterpart is the Republican Governors Association. The DGA is not directly affiliated with the non-partisan National Governors Association. Meghan Meehan-Draper is currently the executive director of the DGA,while Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey is the current chair.
Arizona's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The district is in the north eastern part of the state and includes Apache,Coconino,Gila,Navajo,and Yavapai counties in their entirety and portions of Graham,Maricopa,Mohave,and Pinal counties. The largest city in the district is Flagstaff.
Joe Shirley Jr. is a Navajo politician who is the only two-term President of the Navajo Nation. He served as president from 2003 to 2011. He lives in Chinle,Arizona,and is Tódíchʼíiʼnii,born for Tábąąhá.
Munger,Tolles,&Olson LLP (MTO) is a Californian law firm with offices in Los Angeles,San Francisco,and Washington,D.C. Charles Munger founded the firm in 1962 along with six other attorneys.
Ann Leila Kirkpatrick is an American politician and retired attorney who served as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 2nd congressional district from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she represented Arizona's 1st congressional district from 2009 to 2011,and again from 2013 to 2017. Kirkpatrick was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007.
Peter MacDonald is a Native American politician and the only four term Chairman of the Navajo Nation. MacDonald was born in Arizona,U.S. and served the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II as a Navajo Code Talker. He was first elected Navajo Tribal Chairman in 1970.
Christopher P. Lu is a Chinese American political advisor who serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform. He is also an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly during his tenure as Representative for Management and Reform. In the administration of United States President Barack Obama,Lu served as the United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2014 to 2017,the White House Cabinet Secretary and Assistant to the President from 2009 to 2013,and the co-chair of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and from Harvard Law School,where he was a classmate of Obama's.
Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer,business executive,and former government official who served as the 22nd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013. Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations,including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. State Department. He is now Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute,the firm's global think tank.
Hogan Lovells is an American-British law firm co-headquartered in London and Washington,DC. The firm was formed in 2010 by the merger of the American law firm Hogan &Hartson and the British law firm Lovells. As of 2022,the firm employed about 2,500 lawyers,making it the sixth largest firm in the world.
Ben Shelly was the 7th president of the Navajo Nation. He was the first president to have been elected both president and vice president of the Navajo Nation,as well as the first New Mexican Navajo to hold the Navajo presidency.
Jack C. Jackson Jr. (Navajo) is an American attorney and politician from Arizona. A Democrat,he served in the Arizona Senate,representing the state's 2nd district in northern Arizona from 2011 until July 2013 when he left for an appointment with the U.S. Department of State. He is a former member of the Arizona House of Representatives,having served from January 2003 to January 2005.
Luke Aaron Bronin is an American politician and lawyer who is the 67th and current Mayor of Hartford,Connecticut,since January 1,2016.
Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah,established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28,2016. The monument protects 1,351,849 acres of public land surrounding the Bears Ears—a pair of buttes—and the Indian Creek corridor rock climbing area. The Native American names for the buttes have the same meaning in each of the languages represented in the region. The names are listed in the presidential proclamation as "Hoon’Naqvut,Shash Jáa [sic],KwiyaghatʉNükavachi/Kwiyagatu Nukavachi,Ansh An Lashokdiwe"—all four mean "Bears Ears".
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