The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet generally meets with the president in a room adjacent to the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House. The president chairs the meetings but is not formally a member of the Cabinet. The vice president of the United States serves in the Cabinet by statute. The heads of departments,appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate,are members of the Cabinet,and acting department heads also participate in Cabinet meetings whether or not they have been officially nominated for Senate confirmation. Members of the Cabinet are political appointees and administratively operate their departments. As appointed officers heading federal agencies,these Cabinet Secretaries are bureaucrats with full administrative control over their respective departments. The president may designate heads of other agencies and non-Senate-confirmed members of the Executive Office of the President as members of the Cabinet.
The United States order of precedence is an advisory document maintained by the Ceremonials Division of the Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States which lists the ceremonial order,or relative preeminence,for domestic and foreign government officials at diplomatic,ceremonial,and social events within the United States and abroad. The list is used to mitigate miscommunication and embarrassment in diplomacy,and offer a distinct and concrete spectrum of preeminence for ceremonies. Often the document is used to advise diplomatic and ceremonial event planners on seating charts and order of introduction. Former presidents,vice presidents,first ladies,second ladies,and secretaries of state and retired Supreme Court justices are also included in the list.
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake is an American diplomat and political advisor who served as the 17th United States National Security Advisor from 1993 to 1997 and as the sixth Executive Director of UNICEF from 2010 to 2017.
Goli Ameri is an Iranian-American businesswoman and former U.S. diplomat. She is the co-founder of StartItUp,a mobile technology platform that provides resources to aspiring entrepreneurs. She formerly served as Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Ameri ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2004,and is a former U.S. Representative to the United Nations. She serves on the board of trustees of Freedom House,as well as on the Center for Middle East Public Policy advisory board of the RAND Corporation,a group of public and private sector leaders that provide guidance and support for RAND's Middle East research.
Evelyn May Lieberman was an American public affairs professional who,during the Clinton administration,became the first woman to serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff,and was the first United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
Lucius Durham Battle was a career Foreign Service officer who served with distinction in Washington,Europe and Southwest Asia.
Judith Ann Bense is an American academic,Florida historical archaeologist,and a former president of the University of West Florida. She is also the chairwoman of the Florida Historical Commission at the University of West Florida,she served as a faculty member and department chair in the anthropology program,which she started at the school. In 2008,she started her 7-year term as president of the university. Prior to this,she was the executive director of anthropology and archaeology at UWF. During her career,she was fundamental in drafting the legislation to create the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN).
Alicia Haydock Munnell is an American economist who is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Educated at Wellesley College,Boston University,and Harvard University,Munnell spent 20 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,where she researched wealth,savings,and retirement among American workers. She served in the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Since 1997 she has been a professor at Boston College and director of its Center for Retirement Research,where she writes on retirement income policy.
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is an American diplomat,attorney,political activist and philanthropist who had served the United States ambassador to Brazil in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Portugal from 1994 to 1997.
Stanley Owen Roth is an American foreign policy advisor who served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1997 to 2001.
Roy Richard Rubottom Jr. was an American diplomat,most notable for being Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1957 to 1960,a post in which he played a major role in engineering the United States' response to the Cuban Revolution.
Mary A. Ryan (1940–2006) was a United States career diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Swaziland from 1988 to 1990 and as Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs from 1993 to 2002. Ryan also served overseas in Italy,Honduras,Mexico,Côte d'Ivoire,and Sudan.
William Banks Bader was an American diplomat who served as the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs from 1999 to 2001.
Evan Maureen Ryan is an American public servant who served 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.
Carol Ann DiBattiste is an American lawyer who served as United States Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1999 to 2001.
Bathsheba "Sheba" Nell Crocker is an American diplomat who had served as the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 2014 to 2017.
Judith Ann Miller is an American attorney and government official who served as General Counsel of the United States Department of Defense from 1994 to 1999,and in the private sector as general counsel for Bechtel Group.
Elizabeth Marie Allen is an American political advisor who served as under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in the Biden administration. She had previously served in his administration as assistant secretary of state for global public affairs. She was White House deputy communications director during the Obama administration. Allen resigned from the State Department on August 2,2024,to take up a role as chief of staff to Tim Walz,the then-unannounced running mate of Democratic presidential candidate and incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris.
Lee Satterfield is an American diplomat who had served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Biden administration.
Donna Ann Welton is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Timor-Leste since July 2024.
