Nominations for U.S. Government Officials & Departments by President-Elect Obama

Links to all U.S. federal government departments and agencies may be found at Official Federal Government Web Sites, a Library of Congress Internet Resource Page.

A complete list of nominations and appointments is also provided by the White House website.

Listed below are senior U.S. government posts including, where known, nominations by President Obama. Positions not requiring Senate confirmation are marked (*).

Cabinet Departments	Secretaries
Agriculture http://www.usda.gov	Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
Commerce http://www.doc.gov	Secretary of Commerce Gary F. Locke
Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/	Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Education http://www.ed.gov	Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Energy http://www.energy.gov	Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/	Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleeen Sibelius (designate)
Homeland Security http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/index.jsp	Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Housing and Urban Development http://www.hud.gov	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan
Interior http://www.doi.gov/	Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Justice http://www.usdoj.gov	Attorney General Eric Holder
Labor http://www.dol.gov/	Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
State http://www.state.gov/	Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Transportation http://www.dot.gov/	Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
Treasury http://www.ustreas.gov/	Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner
Veterans Affairs http://www.va.gov	Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
Executive Office of the President	http://www.whitehouse.gov/our_government/executive_branch/
Office of Management and Budget http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/	Director Peter Orszag
Council of Environmental Quality www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/	Chairwoman Nancy Sutley
Council of Economic Advisors http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/about.html	Chairwoman Christina Romer
Office of Administration http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/oa/
Office of National Drug Control Policy http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/	Director R. Gil Kerlikowske
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative http://www.ustr.gov/	Trade Representative Ambassador Ronald Kirk
National Security Council http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/index.html	Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs General (ret'd) James Jones (Dec 01, 2008)
Office of Science and Technology Policy http://www.ostp.gov/	Director John Holdren
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/piab/
White House Press Secretary	Robert Gibbs *
White House Chief of Staff	Rahm Emanuel *
White House Counsel	Greg Craig *
Other Offices
Director of National Intelligence http://www.dni.gov/
Central Intelligence Agency http://www.cia.gov/	Director Leon E. Panetta
Domestic Policy Council http://www.whitehouse.gov/dpc/	Director Melody Barnes
Homeland Security Council	http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/homeland_security/
National Economic Council http://www.whitehouse.gov/nec/index.html	Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Lawrence Summers (Nov 24, 2008) *
Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
Office of the First Lady	http://www.whitehouse.gov/firstlady/
Office of National AIDS Policy	http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/onap/
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Boards
USA Freedom Corps	http://www.serve.gov/
White House Fellows Office	http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/fellows/about/
White House Military Office	http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/whmo/
U.S. Representative to the United Nations http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov	Susan Rice (Dec 01, 2008)
Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/	Administrator Lisa Jackson Susan Rice (Dec 15, 2008)
White House Council on Environmental Quality http://www.epa.gov/	Chairwoman Nancy Sutley (Dec 15, 2008)

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