Samuel Knox Skinner is an American politician,lawyer,and businessman. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Prior to the Bush administration,Skinner served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President Gerald R. Ford from 1975-1977,succeeding James R. Thompson.
Togo Dennis West Jr. was an American attorney and public official. A Democrat,he was the third person to occupy the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs during the Bill Clinton administration serving from 1998 until his resignation in 2000. He was the second African American to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
John D. Altenburg Jr. is a lawyer for the U.S. Army and a retired major general. In December 2003,Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld named Altenburg as the appointing authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo. He resigned,effective November 10,2006.
Sven Erik Holmesis an American attorney and jurist who served as United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Frederick Whitten Peters is a District of Columbia lawyer and senior level public official. His law practice specializes in civil and criminal litigation including contract fraud,antitrust,tax and security cases. He has served in several key positions within the U.S. federal government,including as Secretary of the Air Force.
Nelson Diaz is a United States lawyer who has been a Philadelphia city solicitor,a judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas,and General Counsel at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He was mentioned as a possible HUD Secretary in the Obama Administration,before Obama announced that Shaun Donovan was his pick for the position. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania in the 2015 election.
Patricia Ann Millett is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She formerly headed the Supreme Court practice at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &Feld. Millett also was a longtime former assistant to the United States Solicitor General and served as an occasional blogger for SCOTUSblog. At the time of her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit,she had argued 32 cases before the United States Supreme Court. In February 2016 The New York Times identified her as a potential nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
Richard Rahul Verma is an Indian-American lawyer and the former U.S. Ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. Verma previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2011. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Mastercard,a position he has held since October 2020.
Neal Steven Wolin is the CEO of the corporate advisory firm Brunswick Group,an equity partner of Data Collective,a board partner of Social Capital,and a limited partner advisor of Nyca Partners. He is the longest-serving Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and also served as Acting Secretary of the Treasury in early 2013.
Francisco J. "Frank" Sánchez is an American lawyer and business advisor,former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the Department of Commerce in the Obama administration.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Joe Robert Reeder is a United States lawyer who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1997.
Gary Kim Wincup was United States Assistant Secretary of the Army from 1989 to 1992 and Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) in 1992.
Charles D. Ablard is a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1975 to 1977,and who has been an administrative judge in the United States Department of Defense since 2003. He retired in 2009 and has since been involved in volunteer activities in fields of diplomacy and historic preservation in Washington DC and Alexandria,Virginia.
Wilhelmina Marie Wright is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be State District Court Judge,Appellate Court Judge and state Supreme Court justice. She was formerly an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court,a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals,and a Judge of the Minnesota District Court,Second Judicial District.
Marcus Bertram Simon is an American lawyer and politician from Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party,Simon is the member of the Virginia House of Delegates for the 53rd district,which includes Falls Church and parts of Fairfax County. There he sits on the Courts of Justice,General Laws,and Rules committees,and is Chair of the Privileges and Elections committee and Vice-Chair of the Housing and Consumer Protections Subcommittee of General Laws. He serves as Parliamentarian and Secretary for the House Democratic Caucus. He is appointed to the Virginia Code Commission,the Freedom of Information Advisory Council,and the Virginia Housing Commission. Simon is one of the eight legislators appointed to the Virginia Redistricting Commission,along with eight citizen members. As a lawyer,Simon was a member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army and his own law firm.
William Frederic Jung is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Peter J. Beshar is an American attorney who has served as general counsel of the Department of the Air Force since March 18,2022. Beshar has previously worked in various roles at Marsh McLennan for 17 years.
Musetta Tia Johnson is an American lawyer and academic who is the nominee to serve as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
