James Steven Griles is an American former government official and lobbyist who served as the 3rd United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior from July 12,2001 until his resignation on December 7,2004. Griles held the second-ranking position at the United States Department of the Interior,ranking below only the Secretary of the Interior,at the time Gale Norton.
John David Podesta Jr. is an American political consultant who served as Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy from 2024 to 2025,having previously served as the Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation from 2022 to 2024. Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015. Before that,he served in the Clinton administration as White House staff secretary from 1993 to 1995 and White House deputy chief of staff for operations from 1997 to 1998.
Quinn Gillespie &Associates (QGA) was an American lobbying and communications firm founded in 2000 by Republican political strategist Ed Gillespie and Democratic operative Jack Quinn. It was sold in 2004 to WPP,one of the world's largest communications services groups,and ceased operations in December 2017.
Kevin M. Kolevar is Vice President,Government Affairs,Public Policy and Issues Management at the Dow Chemical Company. He joined Dow Chemical in 2009 after serving as the Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability in the United States Department of Energy.
Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide who last served 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.
William V. Corr is an American attorney and former government official. He served as Chief of Staff for the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the administration of President Bill Clinton and as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2015.
David L. Cohen is an American businessman,attorney,lobbyist,and diplomat who had served the United States ambassador to Canada. He previously served as the senior advisor to the CEO of Comcast Corporation. Until January 1,2020,he was senior executive vice president and chief lobbyist for Comcast. He also served as chairman of the board of trustees for the University of Pennsylvania and was chief of staff to former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell.
Nancy Patricia Dorn was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Army from 1991 to 1993. She later served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2002 to 2003.
Janet Gardner Mullins Grissom was an American lobbyist who worked in the United States Department of State,was U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's first Chief of Staff,and in the White House under George H. W. Bush.
Meredith Attwell Baker is the president and chief executive officer of CTIA,an industry trade group that represents the international wireless telecommunications industry. From 2009 to 2011,Baker was a member of the United States Federal Communications Commission,nominated by U.S. President Barack H. Obama. She also served in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as a political appointee,and was subsequently named a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department by President George W. Bush in February 2007.
The first presidential transition of Donald Trump began when he won the United States presidential election on November 8,2016,and became the president-elect. Trump was formally elected by the Electoral College on December 19,2016. The transition was formerly led by Chris Christie until he and a number of his supporters were replaced or demoted on November 11. The results were certified by a joint session of Congress on January 6,2017,and the transition ended when Trump was inaugurated on January 20,2017.
Ricky "Rick" Allen Dearborn is an American government official and lobbyist who served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative,Intergovernmental Affairs and Implementation in the first administration of U.S. President Donald Trump for less than a year from 2017 to 2018. Prior to this role,he was the executive director of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential transition team and served in various positions on the U.S. Senate staff.
David Urban is an American lobbyist and political commentator for CNN. He is the managing director for BGR Group and serves on the board of directors for numerous companies.
Danny Ray Brouillette is an American government official,lobbyist and businessman who served as the United States Secretary of Energy in the Donald Trump administration from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as the deputy secretary of energy from August 2017 to December 2019. In 2023,Brouillette was named president and chief executive officer elect of the Edison Electric Institute.
Andrew Kerwin Maloney is a former senior U.S. government official and government affairs executive and the president and CEO of the American Investment Council,an industry association for private-equity investors and firms. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs.
David Longly Bernhardt is an American lawyer who served as the 53rd United States Secretary of the Interior from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Donald Trump. He previously was a shareholder at the Colorado law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck,where he was an oil and energy industry lobbyist and natural resources attorney. He began working for the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) in 2001,and served as the department's solicitor from 2006 to 2009 and deputy secretary from 2017 to 2019.
Andrew R. Wheeler is an American attorney who served as the 15th administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2019 to 2021. He served as the deputy administrator from April to July 2018,and served as the acting administrator from July 2018 to February 2019. He has been a senior advisor to Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin since March 2022. He previously worked in the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels,representing coal magnate Robert E. Murray and lobbying against the Obama administration's environmental regulations. Wheeler served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and to the chairman U.S. senator James Inhofe,prominent for his rejection of climate change. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Everett Eissenstat is a former U.S. government official who previously served as senior vice president of global public policy for General Motors. He is the former deputy director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs in the first administration of U.S. President Donald Trump,where he represented the President at the G7,G20,and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summits. He also served on the National Security Council. Eissenstat succeeded Kenneth Juster,who was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as the United States Ambassador to India.
Kathryn Lynn Wheelbarger is an American attorney and government official,who served as Principal Deputy and Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 2018 to 2020.
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