Brad Rogers Carson is the 21st President of the University of Tulsa.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is a headquarters-level staff of the United States Department of Defense. It is the principal civilian staff element of the U.S. Secretary of Defense,and it assists the Secretary in carrying out authority,direction and control of the Department of Defense in the exercise of policy development,planning,resource management,fiscal,and program evaluation responsibilities. OSD is the Secretary of Defense's support staff for managing the Department of Defense,and it corresponds to what the Executive Office of the President of the U.S. is to the U.S. president for managing the whole of the Executive branch of the federal government.
Mary Jo White is an American attorney who served as the 31st chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York,serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24,2013,President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8,2013,and was sworn into office on April 10,2013. In 2014,she was listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
Valerie June Jarrett is an American businesswoman and former government official serving as the chief executive officer of the Obama Foundation since 2021. She was the longest-serving senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. She was assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs,overseeing the office of the same name,and chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. Before that,she was the chief executive officer of The Habitat Company and served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project.
Robert Leon Wilkie Jr. is an American lawyer and government official who served as the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2018 to 2021,during the Trump administration. He was previously Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness during the Trump administration,from November 2017 to July 2018. A Naval intelligence officer in the Reserve,he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs in the administration of President George W. Bush.
Pamela Jo Howell Slutz was a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi,and as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. Over the course of her career,she has also served in various diplomatic posts in Kenya,Taiwan,Indonesia,and China. She was the recipient of two U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards and the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive. After retiring in 2012,Slutz continued to work part-time for the Office of the Inspector General,U.S. Department of State. From 2019 to 2024 she served as president of The Mongolia Society.
Barack Obama assumed office as president of the United States on January 20,2009,and his term ended on January 20,2017. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is an American diplomat,attorney,political activist and philanthropist who is the United States ambassador to Brazil in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Portugal from 1994 to 1997.
Mari Carmen Aponte is an American attorney and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Panama in the Biden administration since November 2022. She previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs on May 5,2016. She also served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011 and again from June 14,2012,until December 2015. Before that she was serving as a member of the board of directors of Oriental Group,a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico. President Obama also nominated her as the United States' permanent representative to the Organization of American States,but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December 2014.
Bernard Daniel Rostker was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1977 to 1979;Director of the United States Selective Service System from 1979 to 1981;Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1994 to 1998;Under Secretary of the Army from 1998 to 2000;and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in 2000–2001. From 1996 to 2001,he also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses.
Clifford Lee Stanley was the United States Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness,having resigned that office in 2011.
The Don't Ask,Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is a landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the "don't ask,don't tell" (DADT) policy,thus allowing gay,lesbian,and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ended the policy in place since 1993 that allowed them to serve only if they kept their sexual orientation secret and the military did not learn of their sexual orientation,which was controversial.
Erin Cathleen Conaton is a former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. She previously served as Under Secretary of the Air Force.
Rosemary Márquez is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Sara Lee Ellis is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Corinne Ann Beckwith is an associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals,the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. She spent her legal career as a public defender before being nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. is an American government official,philanthropist,and politician who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in the Biden administration. As a member of the Democratic Party,he served as the U.S. representative for California's 39th congressional district from 2019 to 2021.
Shawn Graham Skelly is a retired United States Navy officer,national security expert,and LGBT rights advocate who is serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness. She is currently fulfilling the duties of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness since September 11,2023.
Susanna Vreeland Blume is an American government official who is the Senate–confirmed Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) for the Department of Defense. She began performing the duties of the director of CAPE on January 20,2021. She was sworn in as the official director on August 5,2021.
