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Valerie Jarrett

White House

Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement

202-456-1190

More significant than being the highest-ranking woman in the White House and having a sweeping portfolio is the simple fact that Jarrett is a close ...

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Carol Browner

White House

Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change

202-456-1414

In May, when Obama announced ambitious plans to require carmakers to produce more-efficient vehicles, Browner was assigned to explain the details. Insiders say that Browner, ...

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Nancy-Ann DeParle

White House

Director, White House Office of Health Reform

202-456-3226

DeParle, Obama's point person on health care reform, is well liked on both sides of the aisle as an evenhanded, calm, but forceful presence who ...

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Mona Sutphen

White House

Deputy Chief of Staff

202-456-1414

Sutphen has five rules for success, and the fifth one is, "Follow the people, not the job description." That may be what led her to ...

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Anita Dunn

White House

Director of Communications (interim)

202-456-1414

Dunn is one of the Tom Daschle alumni now serving the Obama administration. As a political consultant, she has spent most of her career on ...

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Cassandra Butts

White House

Deputy White House Counsel

202-456-2632

Butts was a force in Washington well before Barack Obama, her Harvard Law School friend, came to the Senate, and she was well positioned to ...

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Melody Barnes

White House

Director of the Domestic Policy Council

202-456-5594

There's a quote frozen in glass on Barnes's West Wing desk that she uses for motivation: "It is this belief in a power larger than ...

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Heather Higginbottom

White House

Deputy director, Domestic Policy Council

202-456-5594

Higginbottom's journey from junior legislative assistant to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to No. 2 in charge of domestic policy in the White House took just ...

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Heather Zichal

White House

Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change

202-456-1414

When the new administration wanted a fresh, youthful face to record a five-minute video about the president's energy and environmental agenda, it turned to Zichal, ...

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Lisa Konwinski

White House

Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs

202-456-2230

It can be argued that Konwinski, a legislative expert in the arcana of the federal budget, landed her job because she spent 11 years close ...

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