Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Ronald Alan Klain is an American attorney,political consultant,and former lobbyist serving as White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden. A Democrat,he was previously chief of staff to two vice presidents,Al Gore from 1995 to 1999 and Biden from 2009 to 2011. He was also appointed by President Barack Obama as White House Ebola Response Coordinator after the appearance of Ebola virus cases in the United States,serving from 2014 to 2015. Throughout 2020 he worked as a senior advisor to Biden's presidential campaign. Following his victory,Biden announced on November 12 that Klain would serve as White House chief of staff.
Christine A. Varney is an American antitrust attorney who served as the U.S. assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division for the Obama Administration and as a Federal Trade commissioner in the Clinton Administration. Since August 2011,Varney has been a partner of the New York law firm Cravath,Swaine &Moore,where she chairs the antitrust department.
Neil Harvey MacBride is an American attorney who is the General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury in the Biden Administration. He previously served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed MacBride's nomination as U.S. Attorney on September 15,2009,and he took office three days later. He left office on September 13,2013.
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.
Melody C. Barnes is an American lawyer and political advisor. Formerly an aide and chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee,Barnes later worked at the Center for American Progress,a think tank,before joining Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. After Obama took office as president,Barnes was appointed director of the Domestic Policy Council,serving in that post from January 2009 to January 2012. After leaving the White House,Barnes assumed roles at the Aspen Institute and New York University. Since 2016,she has been at the University of Virginia,where she teaches law and is the Co-Director of the UVA Democracy Initiative.
Catherine Mary Russell is an American attorney,political adviser,and director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. She was the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues from May 8,2013,until January 20,2017. Before that,she was chief of staff to the Second Lady of the United States,Jill Biden. On December 10,2021,she was appointed the executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Russell took office as UNICEF head on February 1,2022.
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.
Dawn Elizabeth Johnsen is an American lawyer and the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Constitutional law,on the faculty at Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington,Indiana. She previously served in the Biden administration as Acting Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel,having been appointed on January 20,2021 by President Joe Biden,to return to the role she previously held in the Clinton administration. She was succeeded in that role in a permanent capacity by Christopher H. Schroeder,and is currently serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the same office
Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide serving as a Counselor to the President under President Joe Biden. He was the chairman of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Ricchetti previously served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Bill Clinton. In between stints in Democratic administrations,Ricchetti has worked as a lobbyist.
Robert F. Bauer is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama.
Lucy Haeran Koh is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is the first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court in the United States. She is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Nelson Cunningham is an American attorney and a Democratic political advisor who served in the presidential administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
Evan Maureen Ryan is an American public servant currently serving as White House Cabinet Secretary in the administration of Joe Biden. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in the Obama Administration (2013–2017) and was assistant for intergovernmental affairs and public liaison for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Reta Jo Lewis is an American attorney,former diplomat,and politician who is the president and chair of the Export–Import Bank of the United States.
Lisa Oudens Monaco is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and national security official who has served as the 39th deputy attorney general of the United States since April 2021.
Avril Danica Haines is an American lawyer and senior government official who currently serves as the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration. She is the first woman to serve in this role. Haines previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Obama administration;the first woman to hold either position. Prior to her appointment to the CIA,she served as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Office of White House Counsel.
Terrell McSweeny is an American attorney who served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from 2014 until 2018.
Sarah Bianchi is a political advisor and former investment analyst serving as deputy United States trade representative (USTR). Prior to her confirmation as deputy USTR,she was a senior managing director at Evercore ISI,a global investment banking advisory firm.
Jessica Hertz is an American attorney and political advisor who served as the White House staff secretary in the Biden administration from January to October of 2021. Hertz previously served as general counsel for the Presidential transition of Joe Biden and associate general counsel at Facebook. After leaving the White House,Hertz was named general counsel of e-commerce company Shopify.
