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ELECTION
INSIGHT 2020
“This isn’t about – yeah, it is about me,
I guess, when you think about it.”
– President Donald J. Trump
Kenosha Wisconsin Regional Airport
Election Eve.
1 • Election Insight 2020
Contents
04 … Election Results on One Page
06 … Biden Transition Team
10 … Potential Biden Administration
2 • Election Insight 2020
Election Results
on One Page
3 • Election Insight 2020
DENTONS’ DEMOCRATS
Election Results on One Page “The waiting is the hardest part.”
Election results as of 12:45 pm November 9th – Tom Petty
Top Line
Biden declared by multiple news networks to be America’s next president. Biden’s Pennsylvania win puts him over 270. Alaska, Georgia, and North Carolina not yet called.
Biden narrowly leads in GA while Trump leads in AK and NC. Trump campaign seeks recounts in GA and Wisconsin and files multiple lawsuits seeking to overturn the
election results in states where Biden has won. Two January 5, 2021 runoff elections in Georgia will determine Senate control. Senator Mitch McConnell will remain Majority
Leader and divided government will continue, complicating the prospects for Biden’s legislative agenda, unless Democrats win both runoffs. Democrats retain their House
majority but Republicans narrow the Democrats’ margin with a net pickup of five seats.
Incumbents Losing Reelection
• Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) • Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL-26) • Rep. Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM-3)
• Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) • Rep. Donna Shalala (D-FL-27) • Rep. Max Rose (D-NY-11)
• Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) • Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-IA-1) • Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK-5)
• Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN-7) • Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC-1)
Electoral College
WA
ME
MT ND
MN
OR
ID NY
SD WI
MI
WY
IA PA
NE
NV
OH
IL IN
UT NH ME 1
CO WV
VA
KS MO KY
CA MA ME 2
TN NC CT NE 2
AZ NM OK
AR SC RI
MS AL GA
RECOUNT NJ
LA
TX VT
DE
AK
FL
DC
HI MD
Biden: 290 Trump: 214
270 to win
Majority Map Senate House
100 435
48 48
196 216
Republican: 48 Democrat: 48 Republican: 196 Democrat: 216
Governors Attorneys General
2020 Attorney General Races
State Incumbent Challenger State Incumbent Challenger
State Incumbent Challenger State Incumbent Challenger
DE John Carney Jr. Bryant Richardson DE John Carney Jr. Bryant Richardson
DE John Carney Jr. Bryant Richardson Indiana Open (Todd Rokita) Jonathan Weinzapel
IN Eric Holcomb Woody Myers IN Eric Holcomb Woody Myers
IN Eric Holcomb Woody Myers Missouri Eric Schmitt Rich Finneran
MO Mike Parson Nicole Galloway MO Mike Parson Nicole Galloway
MO Mike Parson Nicole Galloway Montana Open (Austin Knudsen) Raph Graybill
MT Austin Knudson Greg Gianforte MT Austin Knudson Greg Gianforte
MT Austin Knudson Greg Gianforte North Carolina Josh Stein Jim O'Neill
NH Chris Sununu Dan Feltes NH Chris Sununu Dan Feltes
NH Chris Sununu Dan Feltes Oregon Ellen Rosenblum Michael Cross
NC Roy Cooper Dan Forest NC Roy Cooper
NC Roy Cooper Dan Forest Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro
4 •Dan Forest
Election Insight
Heather Heidelbaugh
2020
ND Doug Burgum Shelley Lenz ND Doug Burgum Shelley Lenz
ND Doug Burgum Shelley Lenz Utah Sean Reyes Greg Skordas
UT Open (Spencer Cox) Chris Peterson UT Open (Spencer Cox) Chris Peterson
UT Open (Spencer Cox) Chris Peterson Vermont T.J. Donovan H. Brooke Paige
VT Phil Scott David Zuckerman VT Phil Scott David Zuckerman
VT Phil Scott David Zuckerman Washington Bob Ferguson Matt Larkin
WA Jay Inslee Loren Culp WA Jay Inslee Loren Culp
WA Jay Inslee Loren Culp West Virginia Patrick Morrisey Sam Petsonk
WVA Jim Justice Ben Salango WVA Jim Justice Ben Salango
WVA Jim Justice Ben Salango
Winner Uncalled F Seat has been flipped
There are 10 attorney
Winner
general seats on the ballot in 2020. These elections are in Indiana,
Uncalled F Seat has been flipped
Winner Uncalled F Seat has been flipped Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and
West Virginia.
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• There are 11 governorships up in 2020; considerably fewer than in 2018 • There are 11 governorships up in 2020; considerably fewer than in 2018
• There are 11 governorships up in 2020; considerably fewer than in 2018
• Seven are held by Republicans; four are held by Democrats • Seven are held by Republicans; four are held by Democrats
• Seven are held by Republicans; four are held by Democrats
• Each party is defending one open seat, with no incumbent • Each party is defending one open seat, with no incumbent
• Each party is defending one open seat, with no incumbent
Biden
Transition
Team
5 • Election Insight 2020
DENTONS’ DEMOCRATS
The Biden Transition Team
The Biden Transition team’s goal has been to stay under the radar before the election while quietly preparing for significant
changes in policy and personnel, should Biden win. The team is made up of long time confidantes to Biden, like Ted Kaufman,
and veterans from previous government service like Susan Rice and Sally Yates. The make-up of the team demonstrates Biden’s
commitment to diversity and to including more women in key roles. Like the Transition team, a Biden Administration will be the
most diverse in our nation’s history.
Ted Kaufman Jeffrey Zients Michelle Lujan Grisham Cedric Richmond
Co-Chairs Co-Chairs Co-Chairs Co-Chairs
Ted is a former United States Senator from Jeffrey D. Zients is an American chief executive Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham is a lawyer and Cedric Levon Richmond is a lawyer and
Delaware where he served on the Foreign officer, management consultant, and politician serving as the 32nd governor of politician. A member of the Democratic
Relations, Armed Services, Judiciary, and entrepreneur. Zients is currently the President New Mexico since 2019. A member of the Party, he has been the U.S. Representative for
Homeland Security Committees. of Cranemere. From February 2014 to January Democratic Party, Lujan Grisham previously Louisiana’s 2nd congressional district since
2017, he served as Director of the United States served as the U.S. Representative for New 2011. His district includes most of New Orleans.
In addition to his work on these committees National Economic Council and President Mexico’s 1st congressional district from From 2017 to 2019, Richmond served as
he was deeply involved in the Dodd Frank Obama’s Economic Advisor 2013 to 2018. Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Wall Street reform, advocating for science
technology engineering and math (STEM)
education, and highlighting the value of federal
employees.
Anita Dunn Dr. Vivek Murthy Dr.David Kessler Dr. Celine Gounder
Co-Chairs COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team
Anita Babbitt Dunn is an American political Former Surgeon General Former FDA Commissioner,Center for Science New York University Medical School
strategist who served as Acting White House in the Public Interest Director Assistant Professor
Communications Director from April through
November 2009.
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Dr. Zeke Emanuel Dr. Nicole Lurie Dr. Margaret Hamburg
COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team
Yale University Associate Professor of Medicine Former Obama White House Aide Former Obama HHS Assistant Sec for Former Obama FDA Commissioner
Preparedness
Dr. Julie Morita Dr. Helene Gayle Tony Allen Jared Bernstein
COVID-19 Response Team COVID-19 Response Team Advisory Board Advisory Board
Former Chicago Health Commissioner Former CDC Official Tony Allen became the Delaware State Jared Bernstein is a Senior Fellow at the Center
University’s 12th President on January 1, on Budget and Policy Priorities. From 2009 to
2020. Previously, Tony led the corporate 2011, Bernstein was the Chief Economist and
reputation group at Bank of America and was Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph
responsible for developing programming to Biden in the Obama Administration. He was
influential media elites, national social justice considered to be a progressive and “a strong
advocates, academics and elected officials and advocate for workers.”
their staff at federal and local levels.
1 • The Biden Transition Team 6 • Election Insight 2020
Pete Buttigieg Leslie Caldwell Mark Gittenstein Cecilia Martinez
Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an Leslie Ragon Caldwell is an American attorney, Mark Henry Gitenstein is a lawyer who served Dr. Cecilia Martinez is the co-founder and
American politician and Afghanistan War and was until January 13, 2017 the Assistant as the United States Ambassador to Romania Executive Director at the Center for Earth,
veteran. He served as the mayor of South Attorney General for the Criminal Division of from 2009 to 2012. He was nominated by Energy and Democracy (CEED).
Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020 and was a the United States Department of Justice. She President Barack Obama on June 11, 2009
candidate for the Democratic nomination in has spent the majority of her professional and confirmed by the United States Senate on
the 2020 United States presidential election. career handling federal criminal cases, as both July 8, 2009.
a prosecutor and as defense attorney.
Bob McDonald Minyon Moore Vivek Murthy Susan Rice
Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board
Robert Alan McDonald served as the eighth Minyon Moore is an American political activist Vivek Hallegere Murthy is an American Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat,
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. and civil servant. Moore is the founder of physician and former vice admiral in the Public Democratic policy advisor, and former public
He is the retired chairman, president, and Women Building for the Future, and heads Health Service Commissioned Corps who official, who served as the 27th United States
CEO of Procter & Gamble. In 2014 he became Dewey Square Group’s state and local practice. served as the nineteenth Surgeon General of ambassador to the United Nations from 2009
Secretary of Veterans Affairs. the United States. to 2013 and as the 24th United States national
security advisor from 2013 to 2017.
Teresa Romero Cathy Russell Lonnie Stephenson Felicia Wong
Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board Advisory Board
The first Latina and first immigrant woman to Catherine M. Russell is an American On May 27, 2015, Lonnie Stephenson was Felicia Wong is the President and CEO of the
become president of a national union in the policymaker who was the United States appointed International President of the IBEW Roosevelt Institute, a New York-based think
United States. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s and was elected by delegates to the 39th tank and campus network that promotes a bold
Issues from May 8, 2013, until January 20, International Convention a year later. economic and political vision.
2017. Before that, she was chief of staff to the
Second Lady of the United States, Jill Biden.
Sally Yates Yohannes Abraham Avril Haines Gautam Raghavan
Advisory Board Staff Staff Staff
Sally Quillian Yates is a lawyer. She was a United Yohannes Abraham is an Adjunct Lecturer in Avril Danica Haines is a lawyer and former Gautam Raghavan was the Associate Director
States Attorney, later United States Deputy Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, government official who served as the White of Public Engagement under President Obama,
Attorney General, having been appointed where he previously served as a Residential House Deputy National Security Advisor, acting as a liaison to both the LGBT and Asian
to both positions by President Barack Fellow at the Institute of Politics. Prior to serving in Barack Obama’s administration. She American and Pacific Islander communities
Obama, and later was Acting United States Harvard, Abraham served as Senior Advisor previously served as Deputy Director of the from 2011 to 2014.
Attorney General. at the Obama Foundation, helping to set Central Intelligence Agency, the first woman to
up the new organization as interim Chief hold this position.
Operating Officer.
2 • The Biden Transition Team 7 • Election Insight 2020
Angela Ramirez Evan Ryans Julie Siegel Cynthia Hogan
Staff Staff Staff Staff
Chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján Evan Maureen Ryan is a U.S. public servant Senior counsel for economic policy (May 2019- Cynthia C. Hogan is an American attorney and
Executive director of the Congressional who worked as Assistant Secretary of State June 2020) and banking counsel (from Aug. political advisor who served as Counsel to the
Hispanic Caucus, 2006-08. for Educational and Cultural Affairs from 2013 2017) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Law clerk at the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden
to 2017. Prior to becoming Assistant Secretary U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. from 2009 to 2013. In 2020, Hogan joined
of State, she served as the assistant for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
intergovernmental affairs and public liaison for as a member of the vice presidential vetting
Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States. committee.
Cecilia Muñoz Tanya Bradsher Suzy George Don Graves
Staff Staff Staff Staff
Cecilia Muñoz is an American political advisor As Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs from Suzy George is ONE’s Chief Operating Officer Don Graves is Head of Corporate Responsibility
who served as Director of the White House April 2014 to August 2015, Tanya J. Bradsher (COO) where she oversees finance, human & Community Relations at KeyBank.
Domestic Policy Council under President oversaw the Department of Homeland resources, information technology, and global Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant
Obama, a position she held for five years. Prior Security’s public outreach, media, strategic operations departments. Suzy previously to President Obama, and Counselor to Vice
to that, she served as the White House Director and incident communications efforts and served as Deputy Assistant to the President, President Biden.
of Intergovernmental Affairs for three years. served as the principal advisor to Secretary Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the
Jeh C. Johnson on all internal and external National Security Council under President As Biden’s Domestic and Economic Policy
communications. Obama and National Security Advisor Director, he provided advice on a range of
Susan Rice. policy issues including ways to create jobs,
opportunity, and widening the path to the
middle class for the American people and as
Biden’s Traveling Chief of Staff.
Jessica Hertz Tara McGuinness Darla Pomeroy Carlos Monje
Staff Staff Staff Staff
Jessica R. Hertz is a lawyer in Washington, DC Tara Dawson McGuinness founded the New Member and manager at Pomeroy Investments Carlos Monje was Counselor to US.
Practice Lab, a research and design lab from 2008. Co-owner and SVP of corporate Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. He
She served as principal deputy counsel to
focused on family economic security. development at Edge Wireless. worked on the administration’s proposal to
Vice President Joseph R. Biden for nearly two
reauthorize surface transportation programs,
years, during which time she provided strategic McGuinness joined New America after
on the TIGER discretionary grant program,
advice on a wide range of compliance and risk leaving the Obama administration where she
and on efforts to promote equity and
management issues. oversaw the federal teams working alongside
economic development. In August, 2014,
city, non-profit, and philanthropic leaders in
President Obama announced his intent to
Detroit, Baltimore, and Flint, and many other
nominate Monje as Assistant Secretary for
communities
Transportation Policy.
Cameron French
Staff
Vice president of public affairs at
SKDKnickerbocker from June 2018.
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8 • Election Insight 2020
Potential Biden
Administration
9 • Election Insight 2020
DENTONS’ DEMOCRATS
The Biden Administration
A potential Biden Administration will have fewer outsiders who have never served in government before than President Trump
brought to Washington after he was elected. The candidates for top roles in a Biden Administration all have long records of
government service. Many served in top roles in the Clinton and Obama Administration. Biden has a deep bench to choose
from. He will likely be guided by his commitment to make his cabinet the most diverse in history, but also he will want to ensure
it is staffed by veterans who are ready to overhaul policies put in place by Trump beginning on day one. While we have included
several sitting Senators as possible choices for a Biden Administration, it is also possible Biden will discourage service by any
sitting US senators because the margin in the US Senate will be so slim, even if the Democrats are able to win back the Senate.
Chief of Staff Secretary of State
Ron Klain Steve Ricchetti Bruce Reed Susan Rice
Chief of Staff Chief of Staff Chief of Staff Secretary of State
Klain is a senior advisor for the Biden Richetti is chair of the Biden campaign. He has Reed is now CEO and Co-Founder of Civic, a Rice is an opinion writer for The New York
campaign, a member of the Advisory served in multiple Democratic administrations, bipartisan policy ideas company. Previously, Times. She also sits on the boards of Netflix,
Committee on Cyber and International including as deputy assistant for legislative Reed was the first president of the Broad the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Communications at the U.S. Department of affairs and as deputy chief of staff to President Foundation. At the Aspen Institute, he is also and the Aspen Strategy Group. She served
State and a contributing columnist at the Bill Clinton and as chief of staff to Vice a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy on the National Security Council during the
Washington Post. A longtime top Democratic President Biden from 2012 to 2013. After Group. Reed was President Clinton’s chief Obama administration. Outside the White
aide, Klain has served as chief of staff to Vice graduating from the George Mason University domestic policy advisor, and in the Obama House, Rice was the U.S. representative to
President Al Gore from 1995 to 1999 and Vice Antonin Scalia Law School, he served as White House, he served as Assistant to the the United Nations.After receiving her Ph.D.
President Biden from 2009 to 2011. In the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial President and Chief of Staff to Vice President from the University of Oxford, Rice worked at
midst of the Ebola epidemic, President Barack Campaign Committee. Joe Biden. Reed began his career as chief McKinsey & Co, the National Security Council
Obama appointed him as the White House speechwriter for Sen. Al Gore, policy director during the Clinton administration, and served
response coordinator from 2014 to 2015. for Gov. Bill Clinton at the Democratic as assistant secretary of African affairs in
After graduating from Harvard Law School, he Leadership Council, and deputy campaign the U.S. State Department during the Bush
clerked for U.S. Associate Justice Byron White manager for policy of the 1992 Clinton-Gore administration.
and also served as chief counsel of the Senate campaign. He graduated from Princeton and
Judiciary Committee. Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Council of Economic Advisors
Tony Blinken Chris Coons Jared Bernstein Heather Boushey
Secretary of State Secretary of State Council of Economic Advisors Council of Economic Advisors
Blinken is a foreign policy advisor for the Biden Chris Coons is currently an American politician Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Center on Boushey is the chief economist and executive
campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, he serving as a Democrat in the US Senate since Budget and Policy Priorities. In addition, he director at the Washington Center for Equitable
served as director of Human Rights First, a 2010. Coons’s political career began in 2000, is a contributor at The American Prospect Growth and a contributing editor at The
group that holds the U.S. government and when he was elected to the New Castle County and The Washington Post and on the board American Prospect. She previously served
private companies accountable for human Council in Delaware. He became county of directors at the Mertz Gilmore Foundation as chief economist for the Hillary Clinton
rights violations. Before that, Blinken served executive in 2005, serving until 2010.Coons and the National Employment Law Project. campaign. After receiving her Ph.D. from the
as deputy secretary of state and a member of went to Amherst College, where he received Before that, he served as executive director of New School for Social Research, Boushey
the National Security Council in the Obama a bachelor’s degree in political science and the White House Task Force on Middle Class became the chief economist at the Center for
administration, including serving as deputy chemistry in 1985. A recipient of a Truman Working Families in the Obama administration American Progress.
assistant for national security issues to Vice scholarship, Coons spent his junior year in and assistant to Vice President Biden on
President Biden. After graduating from Kenya, taking courses at the University of economic policy.After receiving his Ph.D. from
Columbia Law School, he served in the Clinton Nairobi. Coons later enrolled at Yale University Columbia University, he served as deputy chief
White House as senior director for strategic and earned (1992) both a master’s degree economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.
planning and senior director for European in religion from the Yale Divinity School
and Canadian affairs. He has also been a and a doctorate in jurisprudence from Yale
senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Law School.
International Studies and staff director on the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
1 • A look at the Biden Administration 10 • Election Insight 2020National Security Advisor
Jason Furman Jake Sullivan Tony Blinken Robert Malley
Council of Economic Advisors National Security Advisor National Security Advisor National Security Advisor
Furman is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy Sullivan serves as a senior policy advisor for Blinken is a foreign policy advisor for the Biden Malley is the president and CEO of the
School of Government and a nonresident the Biden campaign and a contributor to the campaign. Prior to joining the campaign, he International Crisis Group, a think tank founded
senior fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute magazine Foreign Policy. He most recently served as director of Human Rights First, a in 1995 focused on researching and analyzing
for International Economics. Furman is an served as a senior policy advisor on foreign group that holds the U.S. government and global crises. Prior to this role, he served on the
alum of the Obama administration, where he policy matters to 2016 Democratic presidential private companies accountable for human White House National Security Council during
served as chair of the Council of Economic candidate Hillary Clinton. Before serving as rights violations. Before that, Blinken served the Obama administration, where he focused
Advisors and the principal deputy director of a senior advisor to the Under Secretary of as deputy secretary of state and a member of on the Middle East and North Africa and the
the National Economic Council. After receiving State for Political Affairs, he was a member of the National Security Council in the Obama Counter-ISIL campaign. Malley graduated from
his Ph.D. from Harvard University, Furman the White House National Security Council in administration, including serving as deputy Harvard Law School.
became the director of the Hamilton Project at the Obama administration. After graduating assistant for national security issues to Vice
the Brookings Institution and a member of the from Yale Law School, he clerked on the U.S. President Biden. After graduating from
Council of Economic Advisors. He also served Supreme Court and served as chief counsel for Columbia Law School, he served in the Clinton
on the National Economic Council in the Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). White House as senior director for strategic
Clinton administration. planning and senior director for European
and Canadian affairs. He has also been a
senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies and staff director on the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
National Economic Council U.S. Trade Representative
Lael Brainard Sarah Bloom Raskin Larry Summers Pete Buttigieg
National Economic Council National Economic Council National Economic Council U.S. Trade Representative
Brainard is a member of the Federal Reserve Raskin is currently the Rubenstein Fellow at Summers is a professor of economics Buttigieg entered the national spotlight during
Board of Governors, a position to which she Duke University. Before that, she was a member at Harvard University and an economic the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He
was appointed in 2014. Before her current role, of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors advisor for the Biden campaign. He has is a faculty fellow at the University of Notre
she served as undersecretary of the treasury from 2010 to 2014 and deputy secretary of held a number of positions in previous Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study and
for international affairs from 2010 to 2013. She the Treasury Department from 2014 to 2017. Democratic administrations, including previously served as mayor of South Bend,
was also the U.S. representative to the G-20 Prior to her nomination to the Federal Reserve, as Treasury Department secretary in the Indiana. After attending Oxford University
Finance Deputies and G-7 Deputies, as well as a Raskin served as commissioner of financial Clinton administration. During the Obama on a Rhodes Scholarship, Buttigieg was a
member of the Financial Stability Board. Before regulation for Maryland and as counsel on the administration, he served as director of the consultant at McKinsey & Co. and served in the
joining the Treasury Department, Brainard Senate Banking Committee. After graduating National Economic Council. Even if he does not U.S. Navy Reserve, where he was deployed to
worked in private practice, was a fellow at the from Harvard Law School, she spent several hold an official position in the administration, Afghanistan.
Brookings Institution and served as deputy years in the private sector, including as Biden is likely to lean on Summers for
national economic advisor and deputy managing director of the Promontory Financial economic counsel. Summers received his
assistant to President Bill Clinton. Brainard Group. She is married to Rep. Jamie Raskin doctoral degree from Harvard University.
earned a doctorate from Harvard University, (D-MD), a member of Maryland’s congressional
where she won a National Science Foundation delegation.
Fellowship and a White House Fellowship.
O�ice of Management Secretary of the Treasury
and Budget
Thea Lee Josh Bivens Rob Nabors Elizabeth Warren
US Trade Representative Office of Management and Budget Office of Management and Budget Secretary of the Treasury
Thea Lee is the president of the Economic Bivens is the director of research at the Rob Nabors currently works for the Bill and Warren, a Democratic senator from
Policy Institute. Lee has a longstanding Economic Policy Institute. Prior to this role, Melinda Gates Foundation where he manages Massachusetts since 2013, received the
relationship with EPI, having begun her career he was an assistant professor of economics government relations, policy, advocacy, and third-most delegates in the 2020 Democratic
here as an international trade economist in at Roosevelt University. After receiving communications in North America. Previously, presidential primary. During her presidential
the 1990s. Lee came to EPI from the AFL-CIO, his Ph.D. from the New School for Social he was at the U.S. Department of Veterans run, a cornerstone of her platform was
where she served as deputy chief of staff. Research, he provided consulting services to Affairs where he was chief of staff. Prior to that increasing taxes on the wealthy. In the Senate,
Lee holds a master’s degree in economics Oxfam America. role, he served in the Obama Administration she sits on the Senate Banking Committee and
from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as the White House’s director of Legislative the committee’s Subcommittee on Securities,
and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Affairs and deputy chief of staff for Policy. Rob Insurance and Investment. She previously
Smith College. spent several years in various positions in the served as ranking member of the Economic
White House’s Office of Management and Policy Subcommittee. After receiving her law
Budget, most recently as deputy director. He degree from Rutgers State University, she
also served on the U.S. House Appropriations taught law at the University of Pennsylvania
Committee, including as majority staff director and Harvard University.
.Rob holds a B.A. from the University of Notre
Dame and an M.A. from the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill.
2 • A look at the Biden Administration 11 • Election Insight 2020Jamie Dimon Richard Cordray Neel Kashkari Lael Brainard
Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Treasury
Dimon is the chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase Cordray served as the first director of the Kashkari is the president of the Federal Reserve Brainard is a member of the Federal Reserve
& Co., a position he has held since 2005. Prior Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from Bank of Minneapolis. As an interim assistant Board of Governors, a position to which she
to that, he served as chair and CEO of Bank 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, he served in a secretary of the treasury for financial stability was appointed in 2014. Before her current role,
One and president of Citigroup. Dimon is number of positions in Ohio state government, from late-2008 to mid-2009, he was tasked she served as undersecretary of the treasury
outspoken on his political positions, and it has including attorney general, state treasurer, with administering the Troubled Asset Relief for international affairs from 2010 to 2013. She
often been rumored that he may one day seek solicitor general and as a member of the Ohio Program (TARP). Kashkari is a Republican was also the U.S. representative to the G-20
the presidency himself. Dimon is a graduate of House of Representatives. In 2011, he ran but was asked to remain at the Treasury Finance Deputies and G-7 Deputies, as well as a
the Harvard Business School. unsuccessfully against current Ohio Gov. Mike Department for the first few months of the member of the Financial Stability Board. Before
DeWine. After receiving his law degree from Obama administration. He also received joining the Treasury Department, Brainard
the University of Chicago, Cordray clerked support from several Democratic members of worked in private practice, was a fellow at the
for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Byron White Congress. He is a graduate of the University of Brookings Institution and served as deputy
and Anthony Kennedy before moving to the Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. national economic advisor and deputy
international law firm Jones Day. assistant to President Bill Clinton. Brainard
earned a doctorate from Harvard University,
where she won a National Science Foundation
Fellowship and a White House Fellowship.
Secretary of Defense
Sarah Bloom Raskin Michèle Flournoy Tammy Duckworth Jack Reed
Secretary of Treasury Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense Secretary of Defense
Raskin is currently the Rubenstein Fellow at Flournoy serves as co-founder and managing Duckworth is the junior Democratic senator Jack Reed is an American politician serving as
Duke University. Before that, she was a member partner of WestExec Advisors, a geopolitical from Illinois, a position she has held the senior United States Senator from Rhode
of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors strategic advisory firm for business leaders. since 2017. She sits on the Senate Armed Island since 1996. He previously served as the
from 2010 to 2014 and deputy secretary of She is also a senior fellow at Harvard Services Subcommittee on Personnel, the U.S. Representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd
the Treasury Department from 2014 to 2017. University’s Belfer Center for Science and Subcommittee on Readiness and Management congressional district from 1991 to 1997. Reed
Prior to her nomination to the Federal Reserve, International Affairs. During the Obama Support and the Subcommittee on Airland. graduated from the United States Military
Raskin served as commissioner of financial administration, she served as undersecretary Before joining the Senate, Duckworth was a Academy and Harvard University, serving in the
regulation for Maryland and as counsel on the of defense for policy from 2009 to 2012. Prior member of the House of Representatives from U.S. Army as an active officer from 1971 to 1979.
Senate Banking Committee. After graduating to this role, Flournoy co-founded the Center 2013 to 2017. After receiving her M.A. from He is the dean of Rhode Island’s congressional
from Harvard Law School, she spent several for a New American Security (CNAS), where George Washington University, she joined the delegation.
years in the private sector, including as she currently serves on the board. After Illinois Army National Guard and worked as
managing director of the Promontory receiving her M.Litt. from Oxford University, a staff supervisor at the Rotary International
Financial Group. She is married to Rep. Jamie Flournoy joined the Harvard Kennedy School of headquarters in Illinois.
Raskin (D-MD), a member of Maryland’s Government, where she was a research fellow
congressional delegation. focusing on international security.
Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Commerce
Raúl Grijalva Tom Udall Deb Haaland Rohit Chopra
Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior Secretary of the Interior Secretary of Commerce
Grijalva has served as a Democratic member Senator Udall is finishing his second term Haaland has served as a Democratic member Chopra is a commissioner on the Federal
of Congress for Arizona since 2003 and and has opted to not run for re-election. of Congress for New Mexico since 2019. Trade Commission, where he has served
currently chairs the House Natural Resources In the Senate, Udall is a member of the She chairs the House Natural Resources since 2018. Before that, he was an advisor on
Committee. Prior to joining Congress, Grijalva Appropriations and Indian Affairs Committees, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and the Hillary Clinton campaign and a special
chaired the board of supervisors for the among others. Prior to joining the Senate, Public Lands. After receiving her law degree advisor to the undersecretary of education in
Country of Prima, Arizona. After graduating Udall served in the US House and as New from the University of New Mexico, Haaland the Obama administration. After graduating
from the University of Arizona, Grijalva was Mexico Attorney General.” unsuccessfully ran for New Mexico lieutenant from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton
elected to the Tucson Unified School District governor and chaired the New Mexico School of Business, Chopra became a policy
board and became the director of El Pueblo Democratic Party. analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection
Neighborhood Center. He was also the Bureau and a senior fellow at the Center for
assistant dean for Hispanic student affairs at American Progress.
the University of Arizona.
3 • A look at the Biden Administration 12 • Election Insight 2020Attorney General
Susan Helper Amy Klobuchar Stacey Abrams Preet Bharara
Secretary of Commerce Attorney General Attorney General Attorney General
Helper is a professor of economics at Case Klobuchar, the senior Democratic senator Abrams serves as co-owner and COO of Family Bharara is a senior legal analyst on CNN and
Western Reserve University, a research representing Minnesota since 2007, made Room, Inc. and as a member of the board of a distinguished scholar in residence at the
associate at the National Bureau of Economic a late-cycle surge in the 2020 Democratic directors for the Center for American Progress. New York University School of Law. During
Research and a nonresident senior fellow presidential primary, almost gaining enough She also founded and runs Fair Fight Action, the Obama administration, he was the U.S.
at the Brookings Institution. Before that, traction to challenge Biden and Sen. Bernie an organization dedicated to addressing voter attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Helper was a senior economist in the Obama Sanders (I-VT) for the nomination. Following suppression, especially in Georgia and Texas. After graduating from Columbia Law School,
administration’s Council of Economic her exit from the race, she was under She rose to national prominence in 2017 during Bharara joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as an
Advisors and the chief economist in the U.S. consideration to be Biden’s running mate until her failed candidacy for governor of Georgia. associate before moving to Shereff, Friedman,
Department of Commerce. She received her she withdrew. She sits on the Senate Judiciary Prior to her gubernatorial campaign, Abrams Hoffman & Goodman.
Ph.D. from Harvard University. Committee and serves as ranking member of served as a member of the Georgia House of
the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Representatives from 2007 to 2017, rising to the
Policy and Consumer Rights. After graduating position of minority leader. After graduating
from the University of Chicago School of Law, from Yale Law School, Abrams was a special
Klobuchar was a partner at a number of law tax counsel at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and
firms before serving as county attorney in the deputy city attorney for the city of Atlanta.
Hennepin, Minnesota.
Sally Yates Doug Jones Tom Perez Vanita Gupta
Attorney General Attorney General Attorney General Attorney General
Yates is a partner at King & Spalding. In 2017, Senator Jones lost re-election on Tuesday Tom Perez is a politician and attorney who has Gupta is the president and CEO of the
she served as acting attorney general for night but he has served in the Chamber been the Chair of the Democratic National Leadership Conference on Civil and Human
10 days in the Trump administration. During since 2018. Jon’s previously served as a US Committee since February 2017. Perez was Rights. During the Obama administration,
the Obama administration, Yates served as Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama previously Assistant Attorney General for she served as the principal deputy assistant
deputy attorney general. After graduating where he successfully prosecuted two KU Civil Rights (2009–2013) and United States attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in
from the University of Georgia School of Law, Klux Klan members for the 1963 bombing of Secretary of Labor (2013–2017). Perez is a the U.S. Department of Justice. After receiving
she became an associate at King & Spalding a Birmingham church that killed four African graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law her law degree from New York University,
before serving as assistant U.S. attorney in the American girls. School, and the John F. Kennedy School Gupta was a lawyer at the NAACP and the
Northern District of Georgia. of Government. He clerked for Judge Zita deputy legal director at the American Civil
Weinshienk in Colorado prior to serving Liberties Union.
as a federal civil rights prosecutor for the
Department of Justice. He also worked for
Senator Ted Kennedy and then served as the
Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the
Department of Health and Human Services in
the final years of the Clinton administration.
Secretary of Agriculture
Neal Katyal David Zuckerman Heidi Heitkamp Cheri Bustos
Attorney General Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture
Neal Katyal is an American lawyer and partner Zuckerman is the lieutenant governor of Former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp served The granddaughter of a hog farmer with strong
at Hogan Lovells, as well as Paul and Patricia Vermont, a position he has held since 2017. as the first female senator elected from North farming roots, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos
Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Prior to this, he was a member of the Vermont Dakota from 2013-2019. During her Senate (D-IL) is a member of the House Agriculture
Georgetown University Law Center. During the state Senate and House of Representatives. tenure, she served on the Senate Agriculture, and Appropriations Committees.
Obama Administration, Katyal served as Acting After graduating from the University of Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, where
Solicitor General of the United States from May Vermont, Zuckerman served on the Burlington she helped write, negotiate, and pass two
2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served Electric Commission. He and his wife also built long-term, comprehensive Farm Bills which
as an attorney in the Solicitor General’s office, an organic farm in Burlington. He served on Congress passed.
and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the American Farm Bureau Federation Young
the U.S. Justice Department. Katyal previously Farmers and Ranchers Committee.
served as National Security Adviser in the
U.S. Justice Department. He graduated from
Dartmouth College and then attended Yale
Law School. After receiving his J.D. degree in
1995, Katyal clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, and then Supreme Court Justice
Stephen Breyer.
4 • A look at the Biden Administration 13 • Election Insight 2020Secretary of Labor
Chellie Pingree William Spriggs Sharon Block Bernie Sanders
Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Labor Secretary of Labor Secretary of Labor
A former farmer and small business owner, Spriggs is a professor of economics at Howard Block is currently the executive director of the Sanders is an American politician who has
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree serves University and chief economist to the AFL- Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law served as the junior United States senator from
on the House Agriculture Committee and CIO. During the Obama administration, he School. In the Obama administration, she was Vermont since 2007 and as U.S. Representative
House Appropriations Committee Agriculture served as assistant secretary for policy in the the principal deputy assistant secretary for for the state’s at-large congressional district
Subcommittee. U.S. Department of Labor. He has served in policy and senior counselor to the secretary from 1991 to 2007. He is the longest-serving
other governmental roles, including as senior at the U.S. Department of Labor. Before that, independent in U.S. congressional history,
advisor and economist at the U.S. Department Block served as an attorney at the National although he has a close relationship with
of Commerce and senior economist for the Labor Relations Board and senior counsel the Democratic Party, having caucused with
Joint Economic Committee. After receiving to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and House and Senate Democrats for most of his
his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Pensions Committee. congressional career. Sanders unsuccessfully
Madison, Spriggs was an assistant professor at sought the Democratic Party nomination
Norfolk State University and the North Carolina for president of the United States in 2016
Agricultural and Technical State University. and 2020, finishing in second place in both
campaigns.
Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development
Eric Garcetti Karen Bass Chuy Garcia Keisha Lance Bottoms
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of HUD
Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles, California, Bass has served as a Democratic member Garcia has served as a Democratic member Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American politician
a position he has held since 2013. He was of the House of Representatives for of Congress for Illinois since 2018. He sits on and lawyer who is the 60th mayor of Atlanta,
also a co-Chair of the Biden Vice Presidential California since 2013 and sits on the House the House Natural Resources Committee, Georgia. She was elected mayor in 2017. Before
Selection Committee. He received his Ph.D. Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign the House Financial Services Committee and becoming mayor, she was a member of the
from the London School of Economics. Affairs Committee. Bass is the chair of the the House Transportation and Infrastructure Atlanta City Council, representing part of
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Bass was Committee. After graduating from the Southwest Atlanta. Bottoms was a prosecutor
considered the favorite of many to be selected University of Illinois at Chicago, Garcia served and also represented children in juvenile court.
as Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, but in the Office of the Chicago City Council, as In 2002, she became a magistrate judge in
she was ultimately not chosen. Prior to joining a senator in the Illinois state Senate and as a Atlanta. In 2008, she ran unsuccessfully for a
Congress, Bass was a member of the California member of the Board of Commissioners for judgeship on the Fulton Superior Court. She
State Assembly and served as speaker of the Cook County, Illinois. earned a bachelor’s degree in communications
Assembly. After graduating from California from Florida A&M University, concentrating
State University, she was a faculty member of in broadcast journalism. She earned a J.D.
the Keck School of Medicine at the University degree from Georgia State University College
of Southern California. of Law in 1994.
Secretary of Transportation
Robert Garcia Eric Garcetti Earl Blumenauer Beth Osborne
Secretary of HUD Secretary of Transportation Secretary of Transportation Secretary of Transportation
He is the current mayor of Long Beach, Garcetti is the mayor of Los Angeles, California, Blumenauer has served as a Democratic Osborne is the director of Transportation for
California. He was first elected in the 2014 a position he has held since 2013. He is also co- member of Congress for Oregon since America. During the Obama administration,
election and won reelection in 2018. A former chair of the Biden campaign’s Vice Presidential 1996. He sits on the House Ways and she served as acting assistant secretary for
member of the Long Beach City Council, Selection Committee. He received his Ph.D. Means Committee and is a member of the transportation policy. Before that, Osborne was
Garcia served as Vice Mayor from 2012 to 2014. from the London School of Economics. Subcommittee on Health and Chair of the a legislative assistant to Sen. Tom Carper (D-
He is not only the city’s youngest and first Subcommittee on Trade. Prior to serving in DE) and Rep. Ron Klink (D-PA). She received her
elected openly LGBT mayor, but also the first Congress, Blumenauer was a member of the law degree from Louisiana State University.
person of color and Latino American to hold Commission on Higher Education for the state
the office of Oregon, a member of the Portland, Oregon,
City Council and a member of the Oregon
Legislative Assembly. Blumenauer received his
law degree from Lewis and Clark College.
5 • A look at the Biden Administration 14 • Election Insight 2020Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ezekiel Emanuel Andy Slavitt Vivek Murthy Jack Markell
Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services
Emanuel is the vice provost for global initiatives Slavitt is currently a senior advisor at the Murthy is a trustee at RAND Corporation and Markell currently serves on the board of
at the University of Pennsylvania, a contributing Bipartisan Policy Center. During the Obama a member of the Biden campaign’s Public directors for the Graham Holdings Company
opinion writer for The New York Times, a senior administration, he was the administrator at the Health Advisory Committee. He previously and the board of trustees for the Annie Casey
fellow at the Center for American Progress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. served as surgeon general during the Obama Foundation. He was the governor of Delaware
and a member of the Biden campaign’s He previously served as an executive vice administration. After receiving his M.D. from from 2009 to 2017, serving on the White
Public Health Advisory Committee. He was president at Optum, Inc. After graduating from Yale University, Murthy was an attending House State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task
previously on the Editorial Advisory Board at the Harvard Business School, Slavitt served physician and instructor at Brigham and Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience
Thomson Reuters, a contributor to the Fox as CEO of Consumer Solutions Business at Women’s Hospital and co-founder and from 2013 to 2014. After graduating from the
News Channel and a contributing writer to the UnitedHealth Group and as COO at Ingenix. president at Doctors for America. University of Chicago business school, he
Journal of the American Medical Association. worked as a consultant at McKinsey and in
During the Obama administration, he served senior management at Comcast.
as special advisor for health policy in the Office
of Management and Budget and as chair of
bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
After receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University, he became a professor at the
Harvard Medical School.
Secretary of Energy
Andrea Palm Mandy Cohen Jay Inslee Andy Levin
Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary of Energy Secretary of Energy
Palm has served as secretary of the Wisconsin Cohen has served as secretary for North Inslee, a former 2020 Democratic presidential Levin has served as a Democratic member
Department of Health Services since January Carolina’s Department of Health and Human candidate, is the governor of Washington, of Congress for Michigan since 2019 and
2019. Prior to her current role, she held a Services since 2017. Prior to her current role, a position he has held since 2013. Before currently sits on the House Foreign Affairs
number of positions in the U.S. Department of she held a number of positions in the Centers becoming governor, Inslee was a member of Committee and the House Education and
Health and Human Services during the Obama for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 Labor Committee. Before joining Congress,
administration, rising to senior counselor for Obama administration, rising to chief operating to 1995 and again from 1999 to 2012. Prior to he was the acting director of the Michigan
the secretary. During her tenure in Washington, officer. Cohen received a medical degree his first term in the House, Inslee served in Department of Energy, Labor and Economic
she also served as a senior advisor for health from Yale School of Medicine and a master’s the Washington House of Representatives. Growth and a senior policy advisor at the
in the White House’s Office of Health Reform. in public health from the Harvard School of After receiving his law degree from Willamette American Federal of Labor and Congress of
After receiving her master’s from Washington Public Health. University, Inslee was an attorney at Peters, Industrial Organizations. After receiving his law
University in St. Louis, Palm served in the office Fowler and Inslee. degree from Harvard University, Levin became
of Rep. Robert Matsui and as senior health a staff attorney at the U.S. Department of
policy advisor to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton. Labor’s Commission on the Future of Worker-
Management Relations.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary of Homeland Security
Tammy Duckworth Jason Kander Vanita Gupta Julian Castro
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security
Duckworth is a Democratic senator from Kander was most recently the secretary of Gupta is the president and CEO of the Castro most recently ran unsuccessfully for
Illinois, a position she has held since state for Missouri, a position he held from Leadership Conference on Civil and Human the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
2017. She sits on the Senate Armed 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a member Rights. During the Obama administration, During the Obama administration, he served
Services Subcommittee on Personnel, the of the Missouri House of Representatives. He she served as the principal deputy assistant as the secretary of Housing and Urban
Subcommittee on Readiness and Management received his law degree from the Georgetown attorney general of the Civil Rights Division in Development from 2014 to 2017. Before that,
Support and the Subcommittee on Airland. University Law Center. the U.S. Department of Justice. After receiving he served as mayor of San Antonio, Texas,
Before joining the Senate, Duckworth was a her law degree from New York University, beginning in 2009. Castro received his law
member of the U.S. House of Representatives Gupta was a lawyer at the NAACP and the degree from Harvard University.
from 2013 to 2017. During the Obama deputy legal director at the American Civil
administration, she served as assistant Liberties Union.
secretary for public and intergovernmental
affairs at the U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs. After receiving her M.A. from George
Washington University, she joined the
Illinois Army National Guard and worked as
a staff supervisor at the Rotary International
headquarters in Illinois. Duckworth was also
the director of the Illinois Department of
Veterans Affairs.
6 • A look at the Biden Administration 15 • Election Insight 2020Alejandro Mayorkas Val Demings Suzanne Spaulding Juliette Kayyem
Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Mayorkas is a Cuban-American lawyer who Demings is serving her second term as a Suzanne Spaulding is senior adviser for Juliette N. Kayyem is an American
served as the Deputy Secretary of the United States member of Congress from Florida. She sits homeland security and director of the businessperson, author and host of the
Department of Homeland Security from Dec. 23,
on the House Permanent Select Committee Defending Democratic Institutions project WGBH podcast The SCIF. She serves as a
2013 to Oct. 31, 2016. He is a partner at WilmerHale.
on Intelligence, as well as the Committees at the Center for Strategic and International national security analyst for CNN and is a
Mayorkas practices in the areas of civil and criminal
litigation, internal investigations, cybersecurity, crisis on the Judiciary and Homeland Security, and Studies (CSIS). She also served as a member weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is
management and strategic counseling. Alejandro is a member of the centrist New Democrat of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at
Mayorkas served as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Coalition. Demings participated in the Judiciary Previously, she served as under secretary the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Immigration Services (USCIS), an Under Secretary Committee’s investigation into the Trump for the Department of Homeland Security Harvard, a member of Secretary Jeh Johnson’s
position within the Department of Homeland Security. administration’s handling of Special Counsel (DHS), where she led the National Protection Homeland Security Advisory Council, and a
Nominated by President Obama in April 2009, he
Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian and Programs Directorate, now called member of the Council on Foreign Relations
was unanimously confirmed by the United States
interference in the 2016 election. She has the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and the Pacific Council on International
Senate in August 2009. Mr. Mayorkas concluded
his duties as Director of USCIS in 2013 to serve as also pushed for some gun control measures Security Agency. Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor
Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, a post for and additional resources to bolster counter- of Massachusetts[2] and a former Boston
which he was also nominated by President Obama terrorism efforts at the state and local levels. Globe columnist.
and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In 1998, Sen. After receiving her M.P.A. from Webster
Dianne Feinstein recommended Mr. Mayorkas to be University, Demings was Orlando’s first female
the United States Attorney for the Central District of
police chief and a police officer for 27 years.
California.From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Mayorkas served
as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District
of California. Alejandro Mayorkas is a graduate of the
University of California at Berkeley and holds a J.D.
from Loyola Law School.
Secretary of Education
Lisa Monaco Pete Buttigieg Randi Weingarten Lily Eskelsen Garcia
Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary of Education Secretary of Education Secretary of Education
Lisa Monaco is an American federal prosecutor who Buttigieg entered the national spotlight during Weingarten is the president of the American Garcia is the president of the National
was the Homeland Security Adviser to President the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He Federation of Teachers, a role she has held Education Association. She also serves
Barack Obama, the chief counterterrorism advisor
is a faculty fellow at the University of Notre since 2008. She is also a member of the Labor as a member of the President’s Advisory
to the president. In this capacity, she was a statutory
Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study and Advisory Committee for Trade negotiations Commission on Educational Excellence
member of the United States Homeland Security
Council. Monaco previously served as the Assistant previously served as mayor of South Bend, and Trade Policy for the U.S. Department of for Hispanics for the U.S. Department of
Attorney General for National Security from 2011 Indiana. After attending Oxford University Labor and a member of the board of directors Education, a member of the board of directors
to 2013, and as the Principal Deputy Assistant on a Rhodes Scholarship, Buttigieg was a for the Economic Policy Institute. During for the Economic Policy Institute, and she
Attorney General in the Justice Department. In consultant at McKinsey & Co. and served in the the Obama administration, Weingarten was is the president of the National Education
2017, Monaco became a senior national security U.S. Navy Reserve, where he was deployed to a member of the Equity and Excellence Association’s Executive Committee. After
analyst for CNN. In 2011, Monaco was appointed by
Afghanistan. Commission for the U.S. Department of receiving a master of education from the
President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Attorney
Education. After receiving her law degree from University of Utah, Garcia served as president
General for National Security. On January 25, 2013,
President Barack Obama announced he would Yeshiva University, Weingarten was an attorney of the Utah Education Association.
name Monaco to be his Assistant to the President at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the
chief counterterrorism advisor to the President.
She attended Harvard University and University of
Chicago Law School.
United Nations Ambassador Director of National Intelligence
Pete Buttigieg Michael Wessel Eric Holder Tom Donilon
United Nations Ambassador United Nations Ambassador Ambassodorship Director of National Intelligence
Buttigieg entered the national spotlight during Wessel is the president of The Wessel Group Eric Holder served as the 82nd Attorney Donilon is chair of the BlackRock Investment
the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. He and a member of the U.S.-China and Security General of the United States from 2009 to Institute, senior counsel at O’Melveny & Myers,
is currently a faculty fellow at the University Review Commission. From the 1970s through 2015. He graduated from Columbia College, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
and Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and
of Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced the 1990s, he held multiple positions for and Columbia Law School. Following law
International Affairs and a member of the
Study. He most recently served as mayor of Richard Gephardt, a former Democratic school, he left New York to work for the Public
Center on Global Energy Policy Advisory
South Bend, Indiana. After attending Oxford member of Congress from Missouri, rising Integrity Section of the Department of Justice Board at Columbia University. During the
University on a Rhodes Scholarship, he was a to the position of general counsel. Wessel for 12 years. He next served as a judge of the 2008 presidential campaign, Donilon headed
consultant at McKinsey & Co. and served in the received his law degree from George Superior Court of the District of Columbia President Obama’s general election debate
U.S. Navy Reserve, where he was deployed to Washington University. before being appointed by President Bill preparation effort and later joined the
Afghanistan. Clinton as United States Attorney for the administration as national security advisor. He
District of Columbia and subsequently Deputy also chaired the administration’s transition at
Attorney General. Following the Clinton the State Department and served as assistant
to the president and principal deputy national
administration, he worked at the law firm of
security advisor. Prior to joining the Obama
Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.,
administration, Donilon served as assistant
representing the firm’s multinational corporate secretary of state and chief of staff at the State
clients in litigation. He returned to Covington Department under President Bill Clinton. In
& Burling, where he continues to practice addition to his public service, Donilon was
corporate litigation, and is also involved with executive vice president for law and policy at
efforts at gerrymandering reform through the Fannie Mae. Donilon received his law degree
National Democratic Redistricting Committee. from the University of Virginia.
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