Although Dale will also have a portfolio dealing with arts and cultural issues, disability-rights groups commend Obama for appointing a special assistant to focus specifically ...
Mather's experience as campaign press secretary for then-Sen. Biden's wife, Jill, during the 2008 presidential campaign, won her the job of running USDA's communications operation, ...
John Hamre, a former deputy Defense secretary who is now president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that Schwartz's rise to Air ...
If you count a brief stint as acting Army secretary in 2001, this nomination actually represents a demotion for Westphal. Of course, acting as a ...
Although not a health policy expert, Petrou, 47, is known as a strong, organized manager. Former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., calls Petrou bright, dedicated, and ...
Amid the Federal Emergency Management Agency's bumbling response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the federal government placed its trust in someone who had always succeeded ...
A native of Cuba, Mayorkas moved to Miami with his parents as a child. Most recently, he was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers, working ...
For the last five years, Marquez, a native San Franciscan, has served as general manager of the Los Angeles Housing Department. In that capacity, she ...
Smith is little known in the Washington tax world; in fact, her 1,251-word law firm bio doesn't once use the word "tax." Instead, she has ...
Having served for 26 years in the Marshals Service, Clark has seen a lot of changes but, he says, "really the mission remains the same." ...
