List of Donald Trump nominees who have withdrawn

The Trump administration has proposed an unusually high number of nominees to appointed positions who have been rejected by the Senate or withdrawn voluntarily.[1][2]

See also: Cabinet of Donald Trump

Executive Office of the President

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
White House Director of Communications	Jason Miller	December 22, 2016[3]	December 24, 2016[4][5]
Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council	Monica Crowley	December 15, 2016[6]	January 16, 2017[7]
Chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality	Kathleen Hartnett White[8]	October 12, 2017	February 5, 2018
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy	Tom Marino	September 5, 2017	October 17, 2017[9]

Department of Agriculture

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Under Secretary of Agriculture (Research, Education, and Economics)	Sam Clovis	July 25, 2017	November 2, 2017[10][11]

Department of Commerce

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Todd Ricketts	November 30, 2016[12]	April 19, 2017[13]
Under Secretary of Commerce (Oceans and Atmosphere)	Barry Lee Myers	October 12, 2017[14]	November 20, 2019[15]
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Export Enforcement)	Jeffrey Nadaner	February 5, 2018[16]	June 12, 2019[17]

Department of Defense

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Secretary of Defense	Patrick M. Shanahan	May 9, 2019[18]	June 18, 2019[19]
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs	Dean Winslow[20]	September 2017	January 2018
General Counsel of the Air Force	David Ehrhart	June 23, 2017	September 29, 2017[21][22]
Secretary of the Army	Vincent Viola	December 19, 2016[23]	February 3, 2017[24]
	Mark E. Green	April 7, 2017[25]	May 5, 2017[26]
General Counsel of the Army	Ryan Dean Newman	March 21, 2017	September 29, 2017[21][22]
Secretary of the Navy	Philip Bilden	January 25, 2017[27]	February 26, 2017[28][29]
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)	Elaine McCusker	November 6, 2019	March 2, 2020[30]
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness	Anthony Kurta	July 19, 2017	September 28, 2018[31]
	J. David Patterson	January 6, 2020[32]	February 12, 2020[33]

Department of Education

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Assistant Secretary of Education (Career, Technical, and Adult Education)	Tim Kelly[34]	27 August 2017	18 November 2017

Department of Energy

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
General Counsel of Energy	David Jonas	May 23, 2017	January 3, 2018[35]

Department of Health and Human Services

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Director of the Indian Health Service	Robert M. Weaver	October 6, 2017	February 21, 2018[36]

Department of Homeland Security

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Partnership & Engagement)	David Clarke	May 17, 2017[37]	June 17, 2017[38]
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency	Jeffrey Byard	May 13, 2019	September 19, 2019[39]
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency	Daniel Alan Craig	July 25, 2017	September 13, 2017[40]
Chief Financial Officer of Homeland Security	Charles E. Cook III	February 2, 2018[41]	June 7, 2018[42]
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement	Thomas Homan	November 14, 2017	May 15, 2018[43]
	Ronald Vitiello	August 6, 2018 [44]	April 4, 2019

Department of the Interior

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Solicitor of the Interior	Ryan D. Nelson[45]	July 31, 2017	May 10, 2018, and nominated instead for Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit
Director of the Office of Surface Mining	J. Steven Gardner[46]	January 8, 2018	September 12, 2018

Department of Justice

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Associate Attorney General	Jessie K. Liu	March 5, 2019[47]	March 28, 2019[48]
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives	Chuck Canterbury	May 24, 2019[49]	May 19, 2020[50]

Department of Labor

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Secretary of Labor	Andrew Puzder	December 8, 2016[51]	February 15, 2017[52]
Assistant Secretary of Labor (Occupational Safety and Health)	Scott Mugno	November 1, 2017[53]	May 23, 2019[54]

Department of State

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Under Secretary of State (Management)	Eric Ueland	June 9, 2017[55]	June 18, 2018[56]
Director General of the United States Foreign Service	Stephen Akard[57][58]	October 10, 2017[59]	March 20, 2018[60] and nominated instead for Director of the Office of Foreign Missions
Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs)	Susan Thornton	December 19, 2017[61]	August 16, 2018[62]
Assistant Secretary of State (South and Central Asian Affairs)	Robert Williams	December 12, 2018	April 11, 2019[63]
Ambassador to Australia	Harry B. Harris Jr.	February 9, 2018	May 23, 2018[64] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to South Korea[65]
Ambassador to the Bahamas	Doug Manchester	May 15, 2017[66]	November 13, 2019[67]
Ambassador to Belgium	Jamie McCourt	June 22, 2017[68]	August 2, 2017[69] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to France[70]
Ambassador to Chile	Andrew Gellert	January 4, 2018[71]	August 16, 2018
Ambassador to Estonia	Edward Masso	September 2, 2017[72]	May 24, 2018[73]
Ambassador to Singapore	K. T. McFarland[74][75][76]	May 19, 2017	January 2018[77]
Ambassador to South Korea	Victor Cha[78]	December 2017	January 2018
Ambassador to the United Nations	Heather Nauert	December 2018	February 2019[79]
Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations (Special Political Affairs)	Austin M. Smith	August 2018[80]	Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2019, replaced by nomination of Alex Wong in February 2020[81]
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly
Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development	Pamela Bates	September 2018[82]	Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2020, replaced by nomination of Manisha Singh in April 2020[83]

Department of Transportation

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration	Paul Trombino III[84]	September 8, 2017[85]	December 8, 2017[86]
Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	Heidi King	April 5, 2018	September 19, 2019[87]

Department of the Treasury

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury	Jim Donovan	March 14, 2017[88]	May 19, 2017[89]
Under Secretary of the Treasury (Terrorism and Financial Crimes)	Jessie K. Liu	January 6, 2020[90]	February 12, 2020[91]
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (International Finance)	Adam Lerrick[92]	March 14, 2017	May 10, 2018[93]
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	James Clinger	June 16, 2017	July 12, 2017[94]

Department of Veterans Affairs

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Ronny Jackson	March 28, 2018	June 20, 2018[95]

Central Intelligence Agency

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency	Christopher Sharpley	September 5, 2017	July 23, 2018[96]

Environmental Protection Agency

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Toxic Substances	Michael Dourson	July 2017	December 13, 2017[97]

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Director of National Intelligence	John Ratcliffe	July 28, 2019	August 2, 2019[98]

Independent agencies

Office	Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Director of the Office of Personnel Management	George Nesterczuk	May 24, 2017[99]	August 2, 2017[100]
President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States	Scott Garrett[101]	Rejected by Senate Banking Committee vote
First Vice President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States	Kimberly A. Reed	September 15, 2017	June 20, 2018, and nominated instead for President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Africa)	Johnathan Miller[102]	January 12, 2018	March 20, 2018
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance)	Mark Montgomery[103][104]	June 20, 2018	November 15, 2018[105]
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Asia)	Mina Chang[106]	September 13, 2018	September 9, 2019[107][108]
Member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service	Calvin R. Tucker	October 26, 2017[109]	March 5, 2019[110]
Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board	Andrew Maunz[111]	March 5, 2018[112]	February 12, 2019[113]
Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission	Ann Marie Buerkle[114]	July 24, 2017	June 18, 2019[115]

Federal judges

See also: Donald Trump judicial appointment controversies

Nominee	Announced	Withdrawn
Damien Schiff	May 8, 2017	January 3, 2018
Thomas Alvin Farr	July 13, 2017	January 3, 2019
Ryan Bounds	September 7, 2017	July 2018
Jeff Mateer		December 2017
Matthew S. Petersen		December 16, 2017
Brett Talley		December 13, 2017
Gordon P. Giampietro	December 20, 2017	January 3, 2019
Maureen Ohlhausen	January 23, 2018	December 2018
Jon Katchen	April 10, 2018	August 2018
John M. O'Connor		April 12, 2019
Thomas Marcelle	November 13, 2018	September 19, 2019
Michael S. Bogren	March 11, 2019	June 26, 2019
Kevin R. Sweazea	June 12, 2019	January 3, 2020
Halil Suleyman Ozerden	June 24, 2019

See also

• List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations
• List of short-tenure Donald Trump political appointments

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