List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations
Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, have resigned or been dismissed. The record-setting turnover rate in the Trump Administration has been noted in various publications.[1][2][3] Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have had the shortest service tenures in the history of their respective offices.[lower-alpha 1] As of May 25, 2020, there have been 415 unique names dismissed and/or resigned.
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Trump has justified the instability, saying: "We have acting people. The reason they are acting is because I'm seeing how I like them, and I'm liking a lot of them very, very much. There are people who have done a bad job, and I let them go. If you call that turmoil, I don't call that turmoil. I say that is being smart. That's what we do."[4]
For comprehensiveness, the list below includes, in addition to dismissals and resignations, routine job changes such as promotions (e.g. Gina Haspel from CIA Deputy Director to Director), officials moving to a comparable position (e.g. John F. Kelly from Secretary of Homeland Security to Chief of Staff), and acting or temporary officials being replaced by permanent ones. The list does not include many lower level positions, however, such as that of executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Matthew Doherty, dismissed in November 2019,[5] without a replacement to lead the council that was created in 1987. But some less prominent officials are listed because their departure was newsworthy.
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Denotes appointees of an office which has since been abolished
Executive Office of the President
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Reince Priebus |
White House Chief of Staff |
January 20, 2017 | July 31, 2017 | His tenure may be considered the shortest in the office's history, excluding interim appointments, if James Baker's separate tenures as Chief of Staff under two different presidents (Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush) are combined (Baker served only 150 days as Bush's Chief of Staff).[6] |
John F. Kelly |
July 31, 2017 | January 2, 2019 | President Trump announced that General Kelly would be leaving at the end of 2018.[7] | |
Mick Mulvaney |
January 2, 2019 | March 30, 2020 | [8] | |
Director of the Office of Management and Budget |
February 16, 2017 | March 31, 2020 | ||
Russ Vought |
Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget |
March 14, 2018 | July 22, 2020 | Vought performed the functions of OMB Director while Mulvaney was Acting Chief of Staff, and continued as Acting Director thereafter. The Senate confirmed Vought as OMB Director on July 20, 2020. |
Katie Walsh |
White House Principal Deputy Chief of Staff |
January 20, 2017 | March 30, 2017 | Moving to "Trump's outside political group" America First Policies.[9] |
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Implementation) | ||||
Kirstjen Nielsen |
White House Principal Deputy Chief of Staff |
September 6, 2017 | December 6, 2017 | Left to become United States Secretary of Homeland Security.[10] |
James W. Carroll |
December 6, 2017 | February 9, 2018 | Left to become acting director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy. | |
Zachary Fuentes | June 6, 2018 | January 2, 2019 | [11] | |
Joe Hagin |
White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations) |
January 20, 2017 | July 6, 2018 | |
Daniel Walsh | July 6, 2018 | November 26, 2019 | [12] | |
Director of the White House Military Office |
September 6, 2017 | July 2018 | ||
Rick Dearborn | White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Policy) |
January 20, 2017 | March 16, 2018 | Formerly the executive director of Trump's presidential transition team, he was a Deputy Chief of Staff until resigning in March 2018,[13] reportedly to seek a job in the private sector.[14] |
Carrie Bock |
Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff |
January 2017 | April 2017 | |
Associate Director of Presidential Personnel |
May 1, 2017 | September 2018 | ||
Michael Ambrosini | Director of the Office of Chief of Staff |
January 22, 2017 | September 2017 | |
Emily Mallon | August 2017 | March 2019 | ||
Steve Bannon |
Senior Counselor to the President |
January 20, 2017 | August 18, 2017 | Returned to Breitbart News. Per some sources, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly asked for his immediate resignation on August 18.[15] Bannon said he submitted a two-week resignation notice on August 4.[16] |
White House Chief Strategist | ||||
Johnny DeStefano |
Counselor to the President |
February 9, 2018 | May 24, 2019 | Oversaw the Offices of Intergovernmental Affairs, Presidential Personnel, Political Affairs, and Public Liaison. Became a consultant for Juul.[17] |
Director of the Office of Public Liaison |
September 25, 2017 | February 9, 2018 | ||
February 9, 2018 | March 18, 2018 | |||
White House Director of Presidential Personnel |
January 20, 2017 | January 2018 | ||
Sean Doocey | January 2018 | February 2020 | ||
Kara McKee | Advisor to the President (Domestic Policy) |
January 20, 2017 | August 1, 2018 | |
Andrew Bremberg |
Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council |
February 2, 2019 | Became Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations. | |
Joe Grogan |
February 2, 2019 | May 24, 2020 | [18] | |
Dina Powell |
Senior Counselor to the President (Economic Initiatives) |
January 22, 2017 | January 12, 2018 | |
Deputy National Security Advisor (Strategy) |
March 15, 2017 | |||
Nadia Schadlow | January 21, 2018 | April 27, 2018 | ||
Bill McGinley | White House Cabinet Secretary |
January 20, 2017 | July 2019 | [19] |
John Mashburn | White House Deputy Cabinet Secretary |
mid-April 2018[20][21] | Became a senior advisor to secretary of the Department of Energy Rick Perry.[21] | |
Carl Icahn | Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform |
August 18, 2017 | Left amid concerns of conflicts of interest.[22][23][24] | |
Reed Cordish |
Assistant to the President (Intergovernmental and Technology Initiatives) |
February 16, 2018 | Stated he never planned to stay with the administration for more than a year and that his policy role was complete.[25] | |
Sebastian Gorka |
Deputy Assistant to the President |
August 25, 2017 | Failed to obtain the security clearance necessary for work on national security issues.[26][27] | |
Carlos Díaz-Rosillo |
June 19, 2018 | Left to work at the National Endowment for the Humanities as Senior Deputy Chairman.[28][29] | ||
Sean Cairncross |
June 2019 | |||
Ira Greenstein | February 1, 2017 | March 30, 2018 | ||
Lance Leggitt |
Deputy Assistant to the President (Domestic Policy) |
February 9, 2018 | ||
Michael Anton |
Deputy Assistant to the President (Strategic Communications) |
February 8, 2017 | April 8, 2018 | |
Andrew Surabian | Special Assistant to the President |
January 2017 | September 5, 2017 | [30] |
Reagan Thompson |
January 2018 (Appointed by Melania Trump) |
July 2018 | [31] | |
Director of Policy for the First Lady | ||||
Lindsay Reynolds | Chief of Staff to the First Lady |
February 1, 2017 | April 2020 | Resigned to spend time with her family.[32] |
Chris Herndon | Special Assistant to the President |
January 23, 2017 | December 2018 | [33] |
White House Director of Information Technology | ||||
Ray Starling |
Special Assistant to the President (Agriculture, Trade and Food Assistance) |
February 2017 | May 2018 | Left to become USDA Chief of Staff.[34][35] |
Michael Catanzaro | Special Assistant to the President (Domestic Energy and Environmental Policy) |
April 2018 | [36] | |
George David Banks | Special Assistant to the President (International Energy and Environment Policy) |
February 14, 2018 | Resigned after learning he would not be able to obtain a security clearance due to past marijuana use.[37] | |
Ben Howard | Special Assistant to the President (Legislative Affairs) |
January 2017 | January 2018 | [38] |
Cindy Simms | February 2017 | March 2018 | ||
Cliff Sims | Special Assistant to the President (Office of Communications) |
January 2017 | May 2018 | [39] |
Kelly Sadler | May 2017 | June 2018 | Mocked Senator John McCain in a May 2018 closed-door meeting in front of two dozen other staffers.[40] | |
Grace Koh | Special Assistant to the President (Technology, Telecom, and Cyber-Security Policy) |
February 23, 2017 | March 2018 | Left to join the private law firm DLA Piper.[41][42][43] |
Michael Flynn |
National Security Advisor |
January 20, 2017 | February 13, 2017 | Resigned after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about the nature and content of his communications with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.[44][45] His tenure was the shortest in the office's history.[46][47] |
H. R. McMaster |
February 20, 2017 | April 9, 2018 | McMaster was criticized in August 2017 after he fired several National Security Council staff members,[48][49] but Trump affirmed his confidence in McMaster.[50][51] On March 15, 2018, it was reported that Trump had decided to dismiss McMaster at a later, unspecified date.[52] McMaster resigned as National Security Advisor on March 22, 2018, effective April 9.[53][54] | |
John Bolton |
April 9, 2018 | September 10, 2019 | Resigned amid disagreements within the Trump administration on Korea, Iran and Afghanistan policy. | |
K. T. McFarland |
Deputy National Security Advisor |
February 20, 2017 | May 19, 2017 | Reported not to be a good fit at the NSC,[55][56] she resigned after less than four months. Trump nominated her to be United States Ambassador to Singapore, but her nomination stalled and was withdrawn.[57] |
Ricky L. Waddell |
May 19, 2017 | May 15, 2018 | ||
Mira Ricardel |
May 15, 2018 | November 14, 2018 | Left after reported disputes with Defense Secretary James Mattis and First Lady Melania Trump.[58] | |
Charles Kupperman |
January 11, 2019 | September 22, 2019 | Acting National Security Advisor from September 10, 2019 until the appointment of Robert O'Brien on September 18, 2019. | |
Victoria Coates | Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle East and North African Affairs |
October 10, 2019 | February 20, 2020 | Reassigned to Energy Department after rumors that she was the author of an anonymous op-ed criticizing Trump.[59] |
Tom Bossert |
Homeland Security Advisor |
January 20, 2017 | April 10, 2018 | His resignation came after John R. Bolton was announced as National Security Adviser, indicating Bolton's intentions to name his own people to supporting positions. Bossert had previously expressed interest in becoming involved in policy issues such as counterterrorism and cyberwarfare, but had spent much of his time as Homeland Security Advisor as the administration's face in dealing with hurricanes that affected Texas and Florida.[60] |
Doug Fears |
June 1, 2018 | July 12, 2019 | [61] | |
Peter J. Brown | July 12, 2019 | February 7, 2020 | Named Special Representative for Puerto Rico's Disaster Recovery.[62] | |
Rob Joyce |
Deputy Homeland Security Advisor |
October 13, 2017 | April 10, 2018 | |
Keith Kellogg |
National Security Advisor |
February 13, 2017 | February 20, 2017 | |
Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council |
January 20, 2017 | April 27, 2018 | ||
Fred Fleitz |
April 27, 2018 | October 15, 2018 | [63] | |
Joan Virginia O'Hara |
Executive Secretary of the National Security Council |
November 19, 2018 | October 11, 2019 | [64] |
Rich Higgins | Director of Strategic Planning of the National Security Council |
January 20, 2017 | July 21, 2017 | [65] |
Tera Dahl | Deputy Chief of Staff for the National Security Council |
January 20, 2017 | July 6, 2017 | [66] |
Garrett Marquis | Senior Director for Strategic Communications and Spokesperson for the National Security Council |
May 29, 2018 | September 11, 2019 | [67] |
Ezra Cohen-Watnick | Senior Director for Intelligence Programs of the National Security Council |
January 2017 | August 2, 2017 | [68] |
Michael Barry | October 2017 | July 2018 | [69] | |
Craig Deare | Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the National Security Council |
January 20, 2017 | February 18, 2017 | [70] |
Juan Cruz | May 11, 2017 | August 2018 | [71] | |
Fiona Hill |
Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs of the National Security Council |
April 2017 | June 2019 | Both Hill[72] and Morrison[73] were witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. |
Tim Morrison |
August 2019 | October 31, 2019 | ||
Andrew Peek | November 1, 2019 | January 19, 2020 | Was placed on administrative leave following a security-related investigation and did not return to the role.[74] | |
Tom Williams | January 20, 2020 | June 18, 2020 | [75] | |
Alexander Vindman |
Director for European Affairs of the National Security Council |
July 2018 | February 7, 2020 | Vindman and his twin brother Yevgeny, also an Army Lieutenant Colonel and an ethics lawyer, were removed from the NSC two days after Trump's impeachment acquittal.[76] |
Derek Harvey |
Senior Director for Middle East and North African Affairs of the National Security Council |
January 27, 2017 | July 27, 2017 | [77] |
Robin Townley | Senior Director for African Affairs of the National Security Council |
January 20, 2017 | February 10, 2017 | Denied a critical security clearance by the CIA.[78] |
Cyril Sartor | August 3, 2017 | June 2019 | [79] | |
Matthew Pottinger | Senior Director for Asian Affairs of the National Security Council |
January 20, 2017 | September 22, 2019 | Became Deputy National Security Advisor.[80] |
Kirsten Fontenrose | Senior Director for Gulf Affairs of the National Security Council |
March 15, 2018 | November 16, 2018 | [81] |
Tim Ziemer | Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense of the National Security Council |
April 2017 | May 8, 2018 | Ziemer was the White House's point man on global health crises. His duties were taken over by the Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense.[82] |
Jennifer Arangio | Senior Director for International Organizations and Alliances of the National Security Council |
January 2017 | July 14, 2018 | [83] |
Kash Patel | Senior Director for Counterterrorism of the National Security Council |
August 6, 2019 | February 19, 2020 | Moved to be a senior advisor at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence upon Richard Grenell becoming acting DNI.[84] |
Earl Matthews | Senior Director for Defense Policy and Strategy of the National Security Council |
July 14, 2018 | November 7, 2019 | [85] |
William Happer |
Senior Director for Emerging Technologies of the National Security Council |
September 2018 | September 11, 2019 | [86] |
Luciana Borio |
Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy of the National Security Council |
July 2017 | May 2018 | |
Rob Porter | White House Staff Secretary |
January 20, 2017 | February 7, 2018 | Resigned his position as White House Staff Secretary after domestic abuse allegations from both of his former wives came to public attention.[87] |
Madeleine Westerhout |
White House Personal Secretary |
January 20, 2017 | February 2, 2019 | |
Director of Oval Office Operations |
February 2, 2019 | August 29, 2019 | Fired after sharing details of Trump family matters and Oval Office operations with reporters.[88] | |
Sean Spicer |
White House Press Secretary |
January 20, 2017 | July 21, 2017 | Spicer was also acting White House Communications Director January 20 – March 6, 2017 and June 2 – July 21, 2017. Announced his resignation July 21, 2017, although he remained at the White House in an unspecified capacity until August 31.[89][90] His tenure was the sixth-shortest in the office's history.[lower-alpha 2][91] |
White House Director of Communications |
January 20, 2017 | March 6, 2017 | ||
June 2, 2017 | July 21, 2017 | |||
Michael Dubke |
March 6, 2017 | June 2, 2017 | His tenure was the fourth-shortest in the office's history, excluding interim appointments. | |
Anthony Scaramucci |
July 25, 2017 | July 31, 2017 | His tenure was the shortest in the office's history, breaking the former record held by Jack Koehler.[92] | |
Hope Hicks |
August 16, 2017 | March 29, 2018 | On February 27, 2018, Hicks told a Congressional committee that she had told "white lies" on Trump's behalf.[93][94][95] The next day Hicks announced her intention to resign,[96][97] effective March 29.[98] | |
White House Director of Strategic Communications |
January 20, 2017 | September 12, 2017 | ||
Mercedes Schlapp |
September 12, 2017 | July 1, 2019 | Pres. Trump tweeted that Schlapp would be joining his 2020 presidential campaign. | |
Bill Shine | White House Deputy Chief of Staff (Communications) |
July 5, 2018 | March 8, 2019 | Resigned to work for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign.[99] |
White House Director of Communications | ||||
Stephanie Grisham |
July 1, 2019 | April 7, 2020 | Grisham was the First Lady's Press Secretary and Communications Director. New Chief of Staff Mark Meadows removed her, and she returned to the East Wing to be the First Lady's Chief of Staff.[32] | |
White House Press Secretary | ||||
Sarah Huckabee Sanders |
July 26, 2017 | June 30, 2019 | ||
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary |
January 22, 2017 | July 26, 2017 | Became White House Press Secretary. | |
Lindsay Walters |
Deputy Press Secretary |
April 13, 2019 | ||
Hogan Gidley | October 11, 2017 | January 31, 2019 | ||
Raj Shah |
White House Deputy Director of Communications and Research |
January 20, 2017 | September 12, 2017 | |
White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary |
September 12, 2017 | January 14, 2019 | [100] | |
Jessica Ditto | White House Deputy Director of Communications |
January 20, 2017 | March 2019 | [32] |
Boris Epshteyn | Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations |
January 22, 2017 | March 25, 2017 | |
Josh Raffel | Deputy White House Communications Director |
January 20, 2017 | February 28, 2018 | Resigned in order to move back to New York City because of "family obligations".[101] |
Adam Kennedy | November 2018 | March 6, 2020 | Kennedy held several staff positions from the start of the Trump administration through March 2020.[102] | |
Michael Short | Senior White House Assistant Press Secretary |
January 20, 2017 | July 25, 2017 | White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci stated his intent to fire Short in an interview with Politico on July 25, 2017. Short resigned later that day.[103] |
Helen Aguirre Ferré |
White House Director of Media Affairs |
January 23, 2017 | August 2018 | Resigned to become Director for Strategic Communications and Public Affairs for the National Endowment for the Arts. |
George Gigicos | White House Director of Advance |
January 22, 2017 | July 31, 2017 | |
Paul Winfree | Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council |
December 2017 | ||
White House Director of Budget Policy | ||||
Marc Short |
White House Director of Legislative Affairs |
July 20, 2018[104] | February 2019: Returning to White House as chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence.[105] | |
Shahira Knight | July 2018 | June 17, 2019 | Decided to depart as cooperation with Congress had taken a back seat to election politics.[106] | |
Special Assistant to the President (Economic Policy) |
January 20, 2017 | July 2018 | ||
Mary Elizabeth Taylor |
White House Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs of Nominations |
January 20, 2017 | October 1, 2018 | Became Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs. |
Gary Cohn |
Director of the National Economic Council |
January 20, 2017 | March 13, 2018 | Announcement followed Trump's proposal to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum, and Trump's cancellation of a meeting with end-users of steel and aluminium that Cohn had arranged in an attempt to dissuade the president from the planned tariffs.[107] |
Jeremy Katz | Deputy Director of the National Economic Council for Economic Policy (Domestic Policy) |
January 22, 2017 | January 2018 | [108] |
Andrew Olmem | July 2, 2018 | June 19, 2020 | [109] | |
Kenneth Juster |
Deputy Director of the National Economic Council (International Policy) |
January 20, 2017 | June 8, 2017 | Became U.S. Ambassador to India. |
June 8, 2017 | July 2, 2018 | |||
Clete Willems | July 2, 2018 | March 22, 2019 | [110] | |
Kelly Ann Shaw | March 22, 2019 | October 25, 2019 | [111] | |
Peter Navarro |
Director of the National Trade Council |
January 22, 2017 | April 29, 2017 | |
Justin R. Clark |
Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs |
January 20, 2017 | March 13, 2018 | |
George Sifakis |
Director of the Office of Public Liaison |
March 6, 2017 | September 25, 2017 | Left after less than seven months.[112] |
Justin R. Clark |
March 18, 2018 | December 7, 2018 | ||
Steve Munisteri |
December 7, 2018 | February 2, 2019 | ||
Deputy Director of the Office of Public Liaison |
February 14, 2017 | February 2, 2019 | ||
Omarosa Manigault Newman |
Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison |
January 20, 2017 | January 20, 2018 | Resignation was announced December 13, 2017.[113][114] It was reported that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly fired Newman,[115][116] but Newman disputed the account, stating that she resigned.[117][118] |
Keith Schiller |
Director of Oval Office Operations |
January 20, 2017 | September 20, 2017 | Left reportedly after White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told him he needed permission to speak to the president and to provide written reports of those conversations.[119][120][121] |
Bill Stepien[122] | White House Director of Political Affairs |
January 21, 2017 | December 7, 2018 | |
Don McGahn |
White House Counsel |
January 20, 2017 | October 17, 2018[123] | President Trump tweeted in August 2018 that McGahn would leave after the Kavanaugh confirmation vote.[124] |
Emmet Flood | October 17, 2018 | December 10, 2018 | ||
Makan Delrahim |
White House Deputy Counsel |
January 20, 2017 | September 28, 2017 | Left to become United States Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. |
January 22, 2017 | December 8, 2017 | Left to become a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. | ||
Stefan Passantino | January 20, 2017 | August 2018 | ||
Annie Donaldson | February 2017 | December 2018 | ||
Ty Cobb | White House Special Counsel |
July 2017 | May 2018 | |
Stacy Cline Amin |
White House Associate Counsel |
January 2017 | ||
Rene Augustine |
January 2018 | |||
John Bash |
December 2017 | Left to become United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. | ||
James Burnham | October 2017 | Resigned to become a United States Assistant Attorney General. | ||
Michael Ellis | February 6, 2017 | |||
Chris Grieco | January 2017 | August 2018 | ||
Brian Rabbitt | November 2017 | |||
Jim Schultz | January 20, 2017 | November 24, 2017 | ||
Steven Menashi | September 2018 | November 14, 2019 | Left to become a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. | |
Stuart McCommas | White House Deputy Associate Counsel |
January 2017 | April 2018 | |
John M. Dowd | Personal attorney for President Trump |
June 2017 | March 22, 2018 | Dowd cited Trump's repeatedly ignoring advice, clashing over legal strategy, and the recent hire of attorney Joseph diGenova to the legal team as justification for his resignation,[125][126] while Trump cited his lack of confidence in Dowd to handle the investigation.[126] |
Marc Kasowitz | Legal Advisor to the President |
May 24, 2017 | July 20, 2017 | |
David Sorensen | White House speechwriter |
January 20, 2017 | February 9, 2018 | Resigned after his ex-wife Jessica Corbett detailed allegations of physical and emotional abuse during their two-and-a-half year marriage. Sorensen denied the allegations,[127] alleged that she had been abusive towards him and submitted his resignation.[128] |
Darren Beattie | White House speechwriter and Policy Aide to the President |
August 19, 2018 | [129] | |
John McEntee | Personal Aide to the President |
January 20, 2017 | March 13, 2018 | |
Jordan Karem | March 13, 2018 | January 2019 | ||
Director of Oval Office Operations |
June 6, 2018 | |||
Ronny Jackson |
Physician to the President |
July 25, 2013 | March 28, 2018 | |
Stephen A. Schwarzman | January 22, 2017 | August 16, 2017 | [130] | |
Chris Christie |
Chair of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission |
March 29, 2017 | November 1, 2017 | |
Charlie Baker |
Member of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission |
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Roy Cooper |
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Patrick J. Kennedy |
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Bertha Madras | ||||
Pam Bondi |
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Kris Kobach |
Vice Chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity |
May 11, 2017 | January 3, 2018 | |
Mary Fallin |
Co-Chair of the Council of Governors |
May 2017 | January 14, 2019 | |
Dannel Malloy |
Reappointment (Tenure began February 4, 2010) |
January 9, 2019 | ||
Terry Branstad |
Member of the Council of Governors |
March 9, 2011 | May 24, 2017 | |
Matt Mead |
May 1, 2017 | |||
Brian Sandoval |
February 21, 2013 | |||
Terry McAuliffe |
February 24, 2015 | |||
Rick Snyder |
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Eric Greitens |
May 2017 | June 1, 2018 | ||
Bill Haslam |
Reappointment (Tenure began in 2014) |
January 19, 2019 | ||
Mark Dayton[131] |
Reappointment (Tenure began February 24, 2015) |
January 7, 2019 | ||
Rick Scott |
May 1, 2017 | January 7, 2019 | ||
Bill Walker |
December 3, 2018 | |||
Charlie Baker |
Reappointment (Tenure began in 2016) |
February 22, 2019 | ||
John Bel Edwards |
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Margaret Weichert |
Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget |
February 28, 2018 | March 2020 | Became a managing director at Accenture. |
Neomi Rao |
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs |
July 18, 2017 | March 18, 2019 | Left to become a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. |
Suzette Kent |
United States Chief Information Officer |
January 29, 2018 | July 2020 | [132] |
Kemp Chester | Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy |
January 20, 2017 | March 27, 2017 | |
Richard J. Baum | March 28, 2017 | February 9, 2018 | ||
Taylor Weyeneth | Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of National Drug Control Policy and White House Liaison |
January 23, 2017 | January 24, 2018 | Formerly White House Liaison at the Office of National Drug Control Policy as a political appointee and Deputy White House Liaison/Special Assistant at the Department of Treasury, Weyeneth was the Deputy Chief of Staff until resigning on January 24, 2018.[133] Hired by HUD in March 2018 on opioid policy, he said in January he was "unfairly criticized".[134] |
Maria Pagan | January 20, 2017 | March 2, 2017 | ||
Stephen Vaughn |
March 2, 2017 | May 15, 2017 | ||
Kevin Hassett |
Senior Advisor to the President (Economic Affairs) |
April 15, 2020 | July 2020 | [135] |
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers |
September 13, 2017 | June 28, 2019 | [136] | |
Tomas J. Philipson |
June 28, 2019 | June 24, 2020 | [137] | |
Jason Greenblatt |
Special Representative for International Negotiations |
January 20, 2017 | October 31, 2019 | Greenblatt left before the release of the peace plan that he worked on for over two years. |
Office of the Vice President
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Josh Pitcock | Chief of Staff to the Vice President |
January 22, 2017 | July 28, 2017 | |
Nick Ayers |
July 28, 2017 | December 31, 2018 | Ayers tweeted on December 8 that he would be departing at the end of the year. | |
Jen Pavlik | Deputy Chief of Staff to the Vice President |
January 22, 2017 | September 2017 | |
Jarrod Agen |
Director of Communications to the Vice President |
January 2017 | June 2019 | [138] |
Marc Lotter |
Press Secretary to the Vice President |
January 22, 2017 | October 2017 | [139] |
Alyssa Farah |
October 2017 | August 31, 2019 | Resigned to become the Pentagon Press Secretary.[140] | |
Francis J. Brooke | Deputy Staff Secretary to the Vice President |
Resigned to become Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. | ||
Associate Director of Domestic Policy for the Vice President |
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Andrea L. Thompson |
National Security Advisor to the Vice President |
January 26, 2017 | September 11, 2017 | |
Joan Virginia O'Hara | Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President |
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Jennifer Williams |
Special Advisor to the Vice President on European and Russian Affairs |
April 2019 | February 3, 2020 | Williams returned to the State Dept. Her next assignment will be with CENTCOM.[141] |
Department of Agriculture
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Mike Young |
Secretary of Agriculture |
January 20, 2017 | April 25, 2017 | |
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture |
January 20, 2017 | October 10, 2017 |
Department of Commerce
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
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Earl Comstock | Director of Policy and Strategic Planning |
January 30, 2017 | March 2, 2020 | [142] |
Karen Dunn Kelley |
Under Secretary of Commerce (Economic Affairs) |
September 22, 2017 | November 28, 2018 | |
Mira Ricardel |
Under Secretary of Commerce (Export Administration) |
September 11, 2017 | May 14, 2018 | Left to become the deputy national security advisor under John R. Bolton. |
Kenneth E. Hyatt |
Under Secretary of Commerce (International Trade) |
2016 | January 2018 | |
Gilbert Kaplan |
March 20, 2018 | September 19, 2019 | ||
David Redl |
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Communications and Information) |
November 21, 2017 | May 9, 2019 | [143] |
Michael Platt Jr. |
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs) |
October 18, 2017 | May 9, 2019 | |
Elizabeth Erin Walsh |
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Global Markets) |
August 17, 2017 | May 3, 2018 | Walsh was terminated on May 3, 2018 and escorted out of the Department of Commerce headquarters for unknown reasons. An internal investigation was initiated.[144] |
Director General of the United States Commercial Service | ||||
Richard Ashooh |
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Export Administration) |
September 11, 2017 | July 16, 2020 | [145] |
Chris Garcia |
Director of the Minority Business Development Agency |
May 22, 2017 | February 27, 2018 | The Washington Post reported that Garcia was one of four Department of Commerce appointees who departed over issues with their security clearance. However, Garcia stated in a brief interview that he had planned to leave the agency for several weeks.[146] |
Deputy Director of the Minority Business Development Agency |
May 22, 2017 | February 27, 2018 | ||
John H. Thompson |
Director of the United States Census Bureau |
August 8, 2013 | June 30, 2017 | |
Ron S. Jarmin |
June 30, 2017 | January 7, 2019 |
Department of Defense
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
James Mattis |
Secretary of Defense |
January 20, 2017 | December 31, 2018 | President Trump tweeted that General Mattis would be "retiring" at the end of February 2019; however, Mattis wrote a strongly worded resignation letter rebuking Trump foreign policy behavior, and thus became the first ever Secretary of Defense to resign in protest. Days later, Trump tweeted that Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan would become Acting Secretary on January 1, 2019, two months earlier than Mattis' original departure date. |
Patrick M. Shanahan |
January 1, 2019 | June 23, 2019 | Shanahan withdrew from consideration for Secretary of Defense.[147] | |
Deputy Secretary of Defense |
July 19, 2017 | January 1, 2019 | Became Acting Secretary of Defense. | |
Robert O. Work |
May 1, 2014 | July 14, 2017 | ||
Kevin M. Sweeney |
Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense |
January 23, 2017 | January 5, 2019 | [148] |
Eric Chewning |
January 6, 2019 | January 31, 2020 | [149] | |
Guy Snodgrass |
Director of Communications to the Secretary of Defense |
April 2017 | August 2018 | |
John H. Gibson |
Chief Management Officer of Defense. |
February 21, 2018 | November 30, 2018 | Submitted resignation on November 5, 2018. |
Deputy Chief Management Officer of Defense |
November 29, 2017 | February 21, 2018 | Became Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense. | |
Robert Daigle |
Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation |
August 3, 2017 | May 2019 | |
Jimmy MacStravic |
Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment) |
January 20, 2017 | August 7, 2017 | |
David Norquist |
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) |
June 2, 2017 | July 31, 2019 | Became the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense. |
Elaine McCusker |
July 31, 2019 | June 26, 2020 | Nominated to serve as the permanent Comptroller but on March 2, 2020 it was reported that her nomination was being withdrawn by the White House. This followed reports that in 2019 McCusker had warned that freezing military aid to Ukraine might not be legal.[150] | |
Anthony Kurta |
Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) |
January 20, 2017 | November 30, 2017 | |
Robert Wilkie |
November 30, 2017 | July 30, 2018 | Became the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. | |
Stephanie Barna |
July 30, 2018 | October 22, 2018 | ||
James N. Stewart |
October 22, 2018 | December 13, 2019 | [151] | |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) |
October 22, 2018 | December 13, 2019 | ||
Stephanie Barna |
January 20, 2017 | October 22, 2018 | ||
Theresa Whelan |
Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) |
January 20, 2017 | June 5, 2017 | |
David Trachtenberg |
October 27, 2017 | January 8, 2018 | ||
John Rood |
January 9, 2018 | February 19, 2020 | [152] | |
Michael D. Griffin |
Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) |
February 19, 2018 | July 10, 2020 | [153] |
Robert H. McMahon |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics and Materiel Readiness) |
November 30, 2017 | August 15, 2018 | Resigned to become Assistant Secretary of Defense (Sustainment). |
Robert Karem |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs) |
June 7, 2017 | October 31, 2018 | |
Kathryn L. Wheelbarger |
October 31, 2018 | July 3, 2020 | Resigned after the White House abruptly nixed her nomination for the permanent Assistant Secretary role over White House concerns that she was not loyal enough to the president.[154] | |
Dana W. White |
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) |
January 2017 | December 31, 2018 | The Pentagon spokeswoman was being investigated by the Inspector General when she resigned.[155] |
Guy B. Roberts |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs) |
November 30, 2017 | April 2, 2019 | Resigned as a result of a sexual harassment probe.[156] |
Owen West |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict) |
December 27, 2017 | June 22, 2019 | [157] |
Robert R. Hood |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs) |
August 8, 2017 | July 25, 2020 | [158] |
Randall Schriver |
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Indo-Pacific Security Affairs) |
January 8, 2018 | December 12, 2019 | [151] |
Steven Walker |
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) |
November 13, 2017 | January 10, 2020 | Became Chief Technology Officer of Lockheed Martin.[159] |
Heather Wilson |
Secretary of the Air Force |
May 16, 2017 | May 31, 2019 | Resigned to become president of the University of Texas at El Paso.[160] |
Matthew Donovan |
June 1, 2019 | October 18, 2019 | Under Secretary Donovan was Acting Air Force Secretary until the confirmation of Barbara Barrett. | |
Under Secretary of the Air Force |
August 3, 2017 | December 2019 | Left to serve as Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness). | |
Lisa Disbrow |
February 24, 2016 | June 30, 2017 | ||
Robert M. Speer |
Secretary of the Army |
January 20, 2017 | August 2, 2017 | |
Ryan McCarthy |
August 3, 2017 | November 20, 2017 | ||
June 23, 2019 | July 15, 2019 | McCarthy was Acting Army Secretary while Esper was Acting Defense Secretary. When Esper was confirmed as Defense Secretary, McCarthy became Acting Army Secretary yet again. On September 26, 2019, the Senate confirmed McCarthy as Army Secretary. | ||
Mark Esper |
November 20, 2017 | July 23, 2019 | Became the United States Secretary of Defense. | |
Secretary of Defense |
June 23, 2019 | July 15, 2019 | Pres. Trump appointed Esper Acting Defense Secretary and nominated him for Defense Secretary. By law, Esper could not serve as Acting Secretary during the confirmation process, so Spencer was Acting Defense Secretary for a brief period. | |
Richard Spencer |
July 15, 2019 | July 23, 2019 | ||
Secretary of the Navy |
August 3, 2017 | November 24, 2019 | Forced out after clashing with Pres. Trump over disciplining Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.[161][162] | |
Sean Stackley |
January 20, 2017 | August 3, 2017 | ||
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition) |
July 28, 2008 | August 3, 2017 | ||
Thomas Modly |
Secretary of the Navy |
November 25, 2019 | April 7, 2020 | Resigned after the controversial removal of USS Theodore Roosevelt Captain Brett Crozier.[163] |
Phyllis L. Bayer |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) |
February 20, 2018 | March 30, 2019 | |
Glenn Fine |
Department of Defense Inspector General |
January 14, 2016 | April 7, 2020 | Fine had been appointed the chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee nine days before his dismissal.[164][165] |
James N. Miller |
Member of the Defense Science Board |
2014 | June 2, 2020 | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Resigned in protest after troops used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawfully assembled protesters outside the White House.[166] |
Department of Education
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Phil Rosenfelt | Secretary of Education |
January 20, 2017 | February 7, 2017 | |
Carlos G. Muñiz | General Counsel of Education |
April 23, 2018 | January 24, 2019 | |
Douglas Webster |
Chief Financial Officer of Education |
January 9, 2018 | [167] | |
Kenneth L. Marcus |
Assistant Secretary of Education (Civil Rights) |
August 6, 2018 | July 31, 2020 | [168] |
A. Wayne Johnson | Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer of Federal Student Aid |
July 2017 | October 24, 2019 | [169] |
Department of Energy
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Grace Bochenek |
Secretary of Energy |
January 20, 2017 | March 2, 2017 | |
Rick Perry |
March 2, 2017 | December 1, 2019 | On October 17, 2019, Perry announced that he intended to resign at the end of the year.[170] | |
Dan Brouillette |
Deputy Secretary of Energy |
August 7, 2017 | December 2, 2019 | Became Secretary of Energy. |
Brian McCormack | Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Energy |
March 13, 2017 | October 2019 | [170] |
Neil Chatterjee |
Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
August 10, 2017 | December 7, 2017 | |
Kevin J. McIntyre |
December 7, 2017 | October 22, 2018 | ||
Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
January 2, 2019 | Died in office. | ||
Robert Powelson |
Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
May 8, 2017 | July 1, 2018 | Left to become the president and CEO of the National Association of Water Companies. |
Department of Health and Human Services
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Norris Cochran |
Secretary of Health and Human Services |
January 20, 2017 | February 10, 2017 | |
Tom Price |
February 10, 2017 | September 29, 2017 | Resigned following scrutiny of his use of private charters and military aircraft for travel.[171][172][173] His tenure was the shortest in the office's history.[173] | |
Don J. Wright |
September 29, 2017 | October 10, 2017 | ||
Assistant Secretary for Health |
February 10, 2017 | February 15, 2018 | ||
Karen DeSalvo | October 2014 | February 2017 | ||
Charmaine Yoest |
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Public Affairs) |
May 14, 2017 | February 28, 2018 | Left to join the Office of National Drug Control Policy.[174] |
Ximena Barreto | Deputy Director of Communications |
December 4, 2017 | July 27, 2018 | Resigned after reportedly making anti-Muslim comments.[175] |
Brenda Fitzgerald |
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
July 7, 2017 | January 31, 2018 | Resigned due to scrutiny of her financial holdings, which included stock in Japan Tobacco.[176] Her tenure was the shortest in the office's history, excluding interim appointments.[177] |
Anne Schuchat |
January 20, 2017 | July 7, 2017 | ||
January 31, 2018 | March 26, 2018 | |||
Scott Gottlieb |
Commissioner of Food and Drugs |
May 11, 2017 | April 5, 2019 | Announced his resignation on March 5.[178] |
Norman Sharpless |
April 5, 2019 | November 1, 2019 | Sharpless is also the Director of the National Cancer Institute. | |
Brett Giroir |
November 6, 2019 | December 16, 2019 | Dr. Giroir is also Assistant Secretary for Health. | |
Rick Bright |
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response |
November 15, 2016 | April 22, 2020 | [179] |
Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority | ||||
Daniel Levinson |
HHS Inspector General |
September 8, 2004 | May 31, 2019 | Retired |
Joanne Chiedi | June 1, 2019 | December 27, 2019 | Retired after three decades of government service. In January 2020, she became chief administrative officer of DLA Piper.[180][181] | |
Christi Grimm |
December 27, 2019 | Late 2020 (expected) | Trump criticized Grimm for releasing a hospital survey that reported shortages of COVID-19 testing materials and medical personal protective equipment. The White House nominated a replacement on May 1, 2020.[182] |
Department of Homeland Security
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
John F. Kelly |
Secretary of Homeland Security |
January 20, 2017 | July 31, 2017 | Resigned to become White House Chief of Staff. |
Elaine Duke |
July 31, 2017 | December 6, 2017 | ||
Kirstjen Nielsen |
December 6, 2017 | April 10, 2019 | President Trump announced via tweet, "Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service." | |
Kevin McAleenan |
April 11, 2019 | October 11, 2019 | [183] | |
Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
January 20, 2017 | April 11, 2019 | Became Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. | |
John P. Sanders | April 15, 2019 | July 7, 2019 | Mark Morgan became Acting Commissioner. Congressman Bennie Thompson describes DHS leadership as "a constant game of musical chairs". | |
Russell Deyo |
Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security |
November 1, 2016 | April 4, 2017 | |
Elaine Duke |
April 10, 2017 | April 15, 2018 | ||
Claire Grady |
April 16, 2018 | April 10, 2019 | Reportedly forced to resign to make way for Kevin McAleenan to become Acting Secretary.[184] | |
Under Secretary of Homeland Security (Management) |
August 8, 2017 | April 10, 2019 | ||
Chip Fulghum | April 10, 2019 | July 2019 | Became COO of Endeavors. | |
David Pekoske |
Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security |
April 11, 2019 | November 13, 2019 | |
Robert P. Hayes | Under Secretary of Homeland Security (Intelligence and Analysis) |
March 20, 2017 | August 7, 2017 | |
David Glawe |
January 23, 2017 | March 20, 2017 | ||
August 8, 2017 | May 9, 2020 | Became President and CEO of the National Insurance Crime Bureau | ||
Brian Murphy |
May 10, 2020 | August 2020 | On July 31, Acting Secretary Chad Wolf informed Murphy that he would be reassigned after DHS compiled intelligence reports on two journalists.[185] | |
James Nealon |
Under Secretary of Homeland Security (Strategy, Policy, and Plans) |
July 10, 2017 | February 8, 2018 | |
Benjamin Cassidy | Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Legislative Affairs) |
April 3, 2017 | March 20, 2018 | |
Richard Staropoli | Chief Information Officer of Homeland Security |
April 2017 | August 2017 | [186] |
John Mitnick | General Counsel of Homeland Security |
March 6, 2018 | September 17, 2019 | [187] |
Thomas Homan |
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
January 30, 2017 | June 30, 2018 | Retired. |
Ronald Vitiello |
Chief of the United States Border Patrol |
February 1, 2017 | April 25, 2017 | Resigned to become Acting Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.[188] |
Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection |
April 26, 2017 | June 29, 2018 | Appointed as the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | |
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
June 30, 2018 | April 12, 2019 | His nomination as Director was withdrawn April 5.[189] | |
Mark Morgan |
May 28, 2019 | July 7, 2019 | Named Acting Commissioner of CBP | |
Matthew Albence |
April 13, 2019 | May 28, 2019 | ||
July 7, 2019 | August 2020 | Retired. The Trump administration has never had a Senate-confirmed ICE Director. | ||
Deputy Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
August 1, 2018 | August 2020 | ||
Brock Long |
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
June 23, 2017 | March 8, 2019 | Announced his resignation February 13, effective March 8, 2019, with his deputy, Pete Gaynor, to serve as acting administrator.[190] The Senate confirmed Gaynor on January 14, 2020. |
Daniel Kaniewski |
Deputy Administrator for Resilience of the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
September 14, 2017 | January 31, 2020 | [191] |
Randolph Alles |
Director of the United States Secret Service |
April 25, 2017 | May 1, 2019 | Became Acting Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Management in July 2019.[192] |
Lee Cissna |
Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services |
October 8, 2017 | June 1, 2019 | Submitted his resignation at the request of Trump on May 24, 2019, effective June 1.[193] |
Ken Cuccinelli |
June 10, 2019 | November 13, 2019 | Became Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. In March 2020, Judge Randolph Moss ruled that his appointment as Acting USCIS Director violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. | |
John V. Kelly |
DHS Inspector General |
December 1, 2017 | June 2019 | Retired earlier than planned following revelations that he directed his staff to whitewash audits of DHS performance after federal disasters.[194] |
Jeanette Manfra | Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, CISA |
November 16, 2018 | January 8, 2020 | Manfra announced on November 21, 2019 that she will leave her position at the end of the year.[195] She became Global Director of Security and Compliance at Google. |
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Craig Clemmensen |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
January 20, 2017 | March 2, 2017 | |
Pam Patenaude |
Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
September 27, 2017 | January 17, 2019 | Announced in December 2018 that she planned to resign in the new year.[196] |
Suzanne Israel Tufts |
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Administration) |
January 5, 2018 | October 19, 2018 | Resigned after controversy over being the next acting inspector general for the Interior Department.[197] |
Neal Rackleff |
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Community Planning and Development) |
October 18, 2017 | November 2018 | [198] |
Dana Wade | Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Housing) Federal Housing Commissioner |
July 2017 | June 2018 | |
Brian Montgomery |
June 5, 2018 | May 12, 2020 | Confirmed as Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | |
Len Wolfson |
May 12, 2020 | July 2020 | ||
Michael Bright | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae |
July 2017 | January 16, 2019 | |
Interim President of Ginnie Mae |
July 2017 | January 16, 2019 | President Trump nominated him to be permanent president of Ginnie Mae in May 2018, but the nomination was not confirmed before Bright resigned.[199] |
Department of the Interior
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kevin Haugrud | Secretary of the Interior |
January 20, 2017 | March 1, 2017 | |
Ryan Zinke |
March 1, 2017 | January 2, 2019 | [200] | |
Julie Lillie | Deputy Secretary of the Interior |
January 20, 2017 | August 1, 2017 | |
David Bernhardt |
August 1, 2017 | April 11, 2019 | Became Secretary of the Interior.[201] | |
Gavin Clarkson | Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Indian Affairs) |
June 11, 2017 | December 29, 2017 | [202] |
Michael T. Reynolds | Director of the National Park Service |
January 3, 2017 | January 24, 2018 | [203] |
P. Daniel Smith | January 24, 2018 | September 30, 2019 | [204] | |
David Vela |
September 30, 2019 | August 7, 2020 | Retired after 30 years with the National Park Service.[205] | |
Brian Steed | Director of the Bureau of Land Management |
October 2017 | May 2019 |
Department of Justice
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jeff Sessions |
Attorney General |
February 8, 2017 | November 7, 2018 | Resigned at the request of President Trump. Replaced temporarily with Matthew Whitaker.[206] |
Sally Yates |
January 20, 2017 | January 30, 2017 | Dismissed by President Trump on January 30, after she instructed the Justice Department not to make legal arguments defending Executive Order 13769. | |
Deputy Attorney General |
January 10, 2015 | January 30, 2017 | ||
Dana Boente |
General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
January 23, 2018 | May 30, 2020 | [207] |
Attorney General |
January 30, 2017 | February 9, 2017 | ||
Deputy Attorney General |
February 9, 2017 | April 25, 2017 | ||
Rod Rosenstein |
April 26, 2017 | May 11, 2019 | Despite numerous reports of his resignation or firing, he lasted through the release of the Mueller Report and the appointments of AG Barr and DAG Rosen. | |
Jody Hunt |
Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division) |
September 4, 2018 | July 3, 2020 | [208] |
Chief of Staff to the Attorney General |
February 2017 | October 2017 | ||
Matthew Whitaker |
October 2017 | November 7, 2018 | [209] | |
Attorney General |
November 7, 2018 | February 14, 2019 | ||
Senior Counselor in the Office of the Associate Attorney General |
February 15, 2019 | March 2, 2019 | ||
Noel Francisco |
Solicitor General |
January 23, 2017 | March 10, 2017 | |
September 19, 2017 | July 3, 2020 | [210] | ||
Jeff Wall | March 10, 2017 | September 19, 2017 | ||
Rachel Brand |
Associate Attorney General |
May 22, 2017 | February 20, 2018 | Resigned to take a job as head of global corporate governance at Walmart.[211] |
Jesse Panuccio |
February 2017 | May 22, 2017 | ||
February 21, 2018 | May 3, 2019 | |||
Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General |
February 2017 | May 14, 2019 | ||
Brian Benczkowski |
Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division) |
July 16, 2018 | July 3, 2020 | [212] |
Donald Kempf Jr. |
Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division) |
2017 | 2018 | Resigned over an investigation into his misconduct.[213] |
United States Attorneys |
Various | March 10, 2017 | On March 10, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions requested the resignations of 46 United States Attorneys.[214] Trump declined to accept the resignations of Dana Boente, who was serving as Acting Deputy Attorney General, and Rod Rosenstein, whom Trump had selected to become Deputy Attorney General.[215][216][217] Trump also allowed Deirdre M. Daly and Richard S. Hartunian to remain in office for a period of several months until they completed 20 years of service at the Justice Department.[218] |
|
Preet Bharara |
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York |
August 13, 2009 | March 11, 2017 | Bharara refused to resign and was fired.[219][220] |
Geoffrey Berman |
January 5, 2018 | June 20, 2020 | On June 19, Barr announced that Berman was stepping down, Craig Carpenito would be acting U.S. Attorney, and Jay Clayton would be nominated as Berman's permanent replacement. Berman countered that he had no intention to resign. He agreed to leave after Barr relented and named Audrey Strauss to be acting U.S. Attorney, preserving the integrity of SDNY.[221] | |
Jessie K. Liu |
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia |
September 24, 2017 | January 31, 2020 | Trump nominated Liu to be Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, then withdrew the nomination on February 11, 2020.[222] |
Jonathan Kravis | Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia |
February 11, 2020 | Kravis and Zelinsky resigned when the Attorney General refused to support their sentencing recommendations for Roger Stone. Two other Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Adam Jed and Mike Marando, withdrew from the case.[223] | |
Aaron Zelinsky | ||||
James Comey |
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
September 4, 2013 | May 9, 2017 | Statements from Trump and the White House suggested he had been dismissed to ease the "pressure" on Trump due to the Russia investigation.[224][225][226] Later that month he arranged for a friend to tell the press about a memo he had written after a February 14 private meeting with the president. It said Trump had asked him to end the FBI's investigation into Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor. His dismissal, the memo, and Comey's subsequent Congressional testimony were interpreted by some commentators as evidence of obstruction of justice and became part of a widening investigation by Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel appointed to probe Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.[227] |
Andrew McCabe |
May 9, 2017 | August 2, 2017 | ||
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
February 1, 2016 | January 29, 2018 | Resigned after being repeatedly taunted by President Trump.[228][229] He then went on paid leave until his scheduled retirement date of March 18, 2018.[230] On March 16, 2018, Jeff Sessions fired McCabe 26 hours before his scheduled retirement.[231][232] Sessions said he based his action on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had made unauthorized releases of information to the media and had "lacked candor" in talking about it. McCabe denied he had ever been dishonest and charged that his firing was politically motivated.[233][234][235] | |
Michael Kortan | Assistant Director for Public Affairs for the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
September 2009 | February 2018 | [236] |
Peter Strzok | Deputy Assistant Director, FBI Counterintelligence Division |
August 10, 2018 | Fired for anti-Trump text messages.[237] | |
Mark Inch |
Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons |
September 18, 2017 | May 18, 2018 | |
Hugh Hurwitz | May 2018 | August 19, 2019 | Removed after Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide while in Federal custody. | |
Robert W. Patterson | Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration |
October 1, 2017 | July 2, 2018 | Retired. |
Department of Labor
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Edward C. Hugler |
Secretary of Labor |
January 20, 2017 | April 28, 2017 | |
Alexander Acosta |
April 28, 2017 | July 19, 2019 | Resigned due to controversy over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case when he was a U.S. Attorney in Florida in 2008. | |
Patrick Pizzella |
July 20, 2019 | September 30, 2019 | Deputy Secretary Pizzella was Acting Secretary until the swearing-in of Eugene Scalia. | |
Katherine Brunett McGuire | Assistant Secretary of Labor (Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs) |
January 2, 2018 | January 25, 2019 | |
Scott Dahl | Labor Department Inspector General |
October 16, 2013 | June 21, 2020 | [238] |
Department of State
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rex Tillerson |
Secretary of State |
February 1, 2017 | March 31, 2018 | Fired March 13, 2018.[239] His tenure was the fifteenth-shortest in the office's 228-year history, and the third-shortest since World War II.[lower-alpha 3] Tillerson is the only Secretary of State since at least 1945 to have been fired.[240] |
Thomas A. Shannon Jr. |
January 20, 2017 | February 1, 2017 | ||
Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs) |
February 12, 2016 | June 4, 2018 | ||
Deputy Secretary of State |
February 1, 2017 | May 24, 2017 | ||
John Sullivan |
May 24, 2017 | December 20, 2019 | Became Ambassador to Russia. | |
Secretary of State |
March 31, 2018 | April 26, 2018 | ||
Margaret Peterlin |
Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State |
February 12, 2017 | March 31, 2018 | |
Michael McKinley |
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State |
November 2018 | October 10, 2019 | [241] |
Brian Hook |
Special Representative for Iran |
September 1, 2018 | August 6, 2020 | |
Director of Policy Planning |
February 17, 2017 | September 1, 2018 | ||
Kiron Skinner |
September 4, 2018 | August 2, 2019 | [242] | |
Sean Lawler |
Chief of Protocol |
December 1, 2017 | July 9, 2019 | In June 2019, Lawler was accused of intimidating behavior towards staff and became the subject of an unsubstantiated investigation by the State Department's Office of the Inspector General. He resigned on July 9, 2019. |
Patrick F. Kennedy |
Under Secretary of State (Management) |
November 15, 2007 | January 26, 2017 | |
Andrea L. Thompson |
Under Secretary of State (Arms Control and International Security Affairs) |
June 18, 2018 | September 20, 2019 | [243] |
Steve Goldstein |
Under Secretary of State (Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs) |
December 4, 2017 | March 13, 2018 | Shortly after President Trump dismissed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13, 2018, Goldstein released a statement that Tillerson did not know why he had been fired and that Tillerson had only learned of his firing that morning from Trump's tweet.[244][245] Goldstein's statement was seen as contradicting the official account of Tillerson's dismissal, which was that Tillerson was informed on March 9 that Trump intended to replace him,[246] and Goldstein was fired from his position.[244][245] According to Axios, Goldstein was disliked in the White House and "seen as openly anti-Trump."[247] |
Heather Nauert |
March 13, 2018 | October 10, 2018 | In December 2018, Trump chose the former Fox & Friends journalist to be the next UN Ambassador, but her nomination was never submitted to the Senate. Nauert left the State Department and joined the board of the Fulbright Program. | |
Spokesperson for the United States Department of State |
April 24, 2017 | April 3, 2019 | ||
Mark Toner |
January 20, 2017 | April 27, 2017 | ||
Deputy Spokesperson for the United States Department of State |
June 1, 2015 | May 2017 | ||
Richard Visek | Legal Adviser of the Department of State |
January 20, 2017 | January 21, 2018 | |
Jennifer Gillian Newstead |
January 22, 2018 | April 22, 2019 | ||
Arnold A. Chacón |
Director General of the Foreign Service |
December 22, 2014 | June 2, 2017 | |
Mary Kirtley Waters |
Assistant Secretary of State (Legislative Affairs) |
December 20, 2017 | August 2018 | Became Director of the United Nations Information Center Washington |
Mary Elizabeth Taylor |
October 1, 2018 | June 18, 2020 | Resigned over Trump's response to nationwide protests against racial injustice.[248] | |
Daniel R. Russel |
Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs) |
July 16, 2013 | March 8, 2017 | |
Susan Thornton |
March 9, 2017 | July 2018 | ||
A. Wess Mitchell |
Assistant Secretary of State (European and Eurasian Affairs) |
October 12, 2017 | February 15, 2019 | [249] |
Kimberly Breier |
Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere Affairs) |
October 15, 2018 | August 30, 2019 | Resigned due to internal disputes over immigration policies. |
Joyce Anne Barr |
Assistant Secretary of State (Administration) |
December 19, 2011 | January 26, 2017 | |
Michele Thoren Bond |
Assistant Secretary of State (Consular Affairs) |
August 10, 2015 | January 27, 2017 | |
Mark Taplin |
Assistant Secretary of State (Educational and Cultural Affairs) |
January 2017 | August 2017 | |
Thomas M. Countryman |
Assistant Secretary of State (International Security and Nonproliferation) |
September 29, 2011 | January 27, 2017 | |
David Malcolm Robinson | Assistant Secretary of State (Conflict and Stabilization Operations) |
January 4, 2016 | January 31, 2017 | |
Mina Chang |
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations |
April 29, 2019 | November 18, 2019 | Resigned a week after news reports of apparent past résumé embellishments: 'Resigning is the only acceptable moral and ethical option'.[250][251] |
Yleem Poblete |
Assistant Secretary of State (Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance) |
April 30, 2018 | June 7, 2019 | |
Kevin Moley |
Assistant Secretary of State (International Organization Affairs) |
March 29, 2018 | November 29, 2019 | Retired after an internal department watchdog report accused Moley of mismanagement and harassment of career employees.[252] |
Nikki Haley |
Ambassador to the United Nations |
January 27, 2017 | December 31, 2018 | Ambassador Haley announced her resignation in October 2018, effective by the end of the year.[253] |
Jonathan Cohen |
January 1, 2019 | July 31, 2019 | Cohen was Acting UN Ambassador until the confirmation of Kelly Craft. | |
Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations |
June 8, 2018 | August 1, 2019 | Became Ambassador to Egypt. | |
Gordon Sondland |
Ambassador to the European Union |
July 9, 2018 | February 7, 2020 | Fired two days after Trump's acquittal.[254] |
John R. Bass |
Ambassador to Afghanistan |
December 12, 2017 | January 6, 2020 | |
Ambassador to Turkey |
October 20, 2014 | October 15, 2017 | Became Ambassador to Afghanistan. | |
Joel Danies |
Ambassador to Gabon |
April 18, 2018 | March 1, 2019 | |
Ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe |
April 20, 2018 | |||
Richard Grenell |
Ambassador to Germany |
May 8, 2018 | June 1, 2020 | [255] |
Simon Henshaw |
Ambassador to Guinea |
March 4, 2019 | June 9, 2020 | Died in office[256] |
William F. Hagerty |
Ambassador to Japan |
August 31, 2017 | July 22, 2019 | |
Jennifer Zimdahl Galt |
Ambassador to Mongolia |
October 5, 2015 | November 10, 2017 | |
Kenneth Braithwaite |
Ambassador to Norway |
February 8, 2018 | May 29, 2020 | Became Secretary of the Navy.[257] |
David Hale |
Ambassador to Pakistan |
November 17, 2015 | August 29, 2018 | Became Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. |
John D. Feeley |
Ambassador to Panama |
December 9, 2015 | March 9, 2018 | Resigned over policy differences with the Trump administration.[258] |
Marie Yovanovitch |
Ambassador to Ukraine |
August 29, 2016 | May 20, 2019 | The career diplomat was scheduled to remain until July, but Trump removed her when she objected to Rudy Giuliani's activities in Ukraine. |
William Taylor |
June 18, 2019 | January 1, 2020 | Taylor had been Ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. Secretary Pompeo asked him to return to Kyiv temporarily after Yovanovitch's recall. Both Yovanovitch and Taylor were witnesses in the impeachment inquiry.[259] | |
Daniel Lewis Foote |
Ambassador to Zambia |
December 17, 2017 | December 24, 2019 | Recalled after being declared persona non grata in Zambia resulting from his denouncement of the imprisonment of a local homosexual couple. |
Brett McGurk |
Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL |
October 23, 2015 | December 31, 2018 | Ambassador McGurk, an Obama holdover who had planned to retire in February 2019, resigned in protest of the Trump administration's Syria policy.[260] |
Kelley Eckels Currie |
Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council |
August 4, 2017 | February 18, 2019 | She was nominated on March 8, 2019 and confirmed on December 19, 2019 to be Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues and Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.[261] |
Kurt Volker |
Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations |
July 7, 2017 | September 27, 2019 | Resigned after his involvement in the Trump–Ukraine scandal came to light.[262] |
Steve Linick |
State Department Inspector General |
September 30, 2013 | May 15, 2020 | Fired after starting multiple investigations into Secretary Mike Pompeo: alleged misuse of a political appointee to do tasks for him and Mrs. Pompeo, helping fast-track "emergency" arms sales to Saudi Arabia and potential misuse of State Dept. facilities and diplomatic funds for "Madison dinners".[263] The president said he had lost confidence in Linick.[264] |
Stephen Akard |
May 15, 2020 | August 7, 2020 |
Department of Transportation
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jeffrey Rosen |
Deputy Secretary of Transportation |
May 18, 2017 | May 22, 2019 | Became Deputy Attorney General.[265] |
Derek Kan |
Under Secretary of Transportation (Policy) |
December 4, 2017 | July 2019 | |
Calvin Scovel | Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation |
October 26, 2006 | January 31, 2020 | |
Daniel Elwell |
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration |
January 7, 2018 | July 24, 2019 | Deputy Administrator Elwell was Acting Administrator from the expiration of Michael Huerta's term until the confirmation of Stephen Dickson. |
Department of the Treasury
Department of Veterans Affairs
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Snyder |
Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
January 20, 2017 | February 14, 2017 | |
David Shulkin |
February 14, 2017 | March 28, 2018 | On March 28, 2018, Trump announced on Twitter that Shulkin had been fired.[271][272] Following his dismissal, controversy erupted about efforts by the White House to privatize VA healthcare[273] and Shulkin's allegedly inappropriate taxpayer-funded foreign trips.[274] | |
Robert Wilkie |
March 28, 2018 | May 29, 2018 | ||
Peter O'Rourke |
May 29, 2018 | July 30, 2018 | ||
Gina Farrisee |
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
January 20, 2017 | February 25, 2017 | |
Scott Blackburn | February 26, 2017 | August 9, 2017 | ||
Thomas G. Bowman |
August 10, 2017 | June 15, 2018 | Retired.[275] | |
James Byrne |
September 16, 2019 | February 3, 2020 | [276] | |
General Counsel of Veterans Affairs |
August 8, 2017 | September 16, 2019 | [276] | |
Poonam Alaigh | Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Health) |
May 2017 | September 25, 2017 | [277] |
Peter Shelby |
Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Human Resources and Administration) |
February 24, 2018 | Summer 2018 | Retired. |
Donald P. Loren |
Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Operations, Security and Preparedness) |
Intelligence community
Independent agencies
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
J. Christopher Giancarlo |
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
August 3, 2017 | April 13, 2019 | |
Richard Cordray |
Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
January 4, 2012 | November 24, 2017 | After President Trump was inaugurated, he and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney worked to undermine Cordray and the CFPB.[285] |
Mick Mulvaney |
November 25, 2017 | December 11, 2018 | ||
David Silberman |
Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |
January 11, 2016 | November 24, 2017 | |
Leandra English | November 24, 2017 | July 9, 2018 | ||
Carl Higbie | Chief of External Affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service |
August 2017 | January 19, 2018 | Resigned in January 2018 after racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBT comments, and comments about fellow veterans with PTSD, came to light.[286][287] |
Scott Pruitt |
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
February 17, 2017 | July 9, 2018 | Resignation tendered July 5, to be effective Friday, July 6, when the Deputy Administrator became Acting Administrator.[288][289] |
Andrew R. Wheeler |
Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
April 20, 2018 | February 28, 2019 | Became EPA Administrator.[290] |
William Wehrum |
Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Air and Radiation |
November 20, 2017 | June 30, 2019 | |
Mignon Clyburn |
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission |
August 3, 2009 | June 2018 | Retired. |
Philip A. Miscimarra |
Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board |
January 23, 2017 | April 23, 2017 | |
April 24, 2017 | December 16, 2017 | |||
Linda Puchala |
Member of the National Mediation Board |
November 2, 2017 | July 1, 2018 | |
Walter Shaub |
Director of the Office of Government Ethics |
January 9, 2013 | July 19, 2017 | Shaub was outspoken with concerns about the Trump Administration during the transition period and after Trump's inauguration.[291][291][292][293][294][295] Shaub resigned six months before the end of his term, saying that ethics rules should be tighter.[296][297] |
Jeff Tien Han Pon |
Director of the Office of Personnel Management |
March 9, 2018 | October 5, 2018 | |
Margaret Weichert |
October 5, 2018 | September 16, 2019 | The Senate confirmed Dale Cabaniss as OPM Director. | |
Dale Cabaniss | September 16, 2019 | March 17, 2020 | [298] | |
Ray Washburne |
President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation |
September 5, 2017 | March 1, 2019 | |
Mel Watt |
Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency |
January 6, 2014 | January 6, 2019 | |
Joseph Loddo |
Administrator of the Small Business Administration |
January 20, 2017 | February 14, 2017 | |
Linda McMahon |
February 14, 2017 | April 12, 2019 | In March 2019, the former WWE executive announced she was leaving the SBA to work for the America First Action SuperPAC.[299] | |
Chris Pilkerton |
April 13, 2019 | January 13, 2020 | Pilkerton remains the General Counsel of the SBA. | |
Althea Coetzee |
Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration |
August 3, 2017 | April 15, 2018 | [300] |
Ann M. Ravel |
Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission |
October 25, 2013 | March 1, 2017 | |
Lee E. Goodman |
October 22, 2013 | February 16, 2018 | ||
Matthew S. Petersen |
June 24, 2008 | August 31, 2019 | ||
Caroline C. Hunter |
June 24, 2008 | July 3, 2020 | [301] | |
Megan Brennan |
United States Postmaster General |
February 1, 2015 | June 15, 2020 | [302] |
Ronald Stroman | Deputy United States Postmaster General |
March 2011 | June 1, 2020 | [303] |
Mark Green |
Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development |
August 7, 2017 | April 10, 2020 | [304] |
Merritt Corrigan | Deputy White House Liaison of the United States Agency for International Development |
June 2020 | August 3, 2020 | Forced out after a history of anti-LGBTQ comments soon after starting in the role.[305] |
William Gerstenmaier |
NASA Associate Administrator (Human Exploration and Operations) |
August 12, 2005 | July 10, 2019 | |
Ken Bowersox |
July 10, 2019 | October 16, 2019 | ||
Doug Loverro | October 16, 2019 | May 19, 2020 | Bowersox returned as Acting Associate Administrator.[306] | |
Amanda Bennett |
Director of the Voice of America |
March 2016 | June 15, 2020 | [307] |
Alberto Fernandez |
Director of Middle East Broadcasting Networks |
July 2017 | June 17, 2020 | Fired by Michael Pack, the new CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media[308] |
Jamie Fly | President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
August 1, 2019 | ||
Bay Fang | President of Radio Free Asia |
November 20, 2019 | ||
James “Skip” Thompson |
Chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority |
May 2019 | August 3, 2020 | Fired after TVA announced that 200 American workers would be replaced with cheaper foreign workers. That decision was reversed on August 6.[309] |
Banks
Name | Office | Took office | Left office | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Geoffrey Okamoto[310] |
Governor of the African Development Bank | March 2018 | ||
Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
See also
Notes
- Excluding interim appointments.
- Excluding interim appointments. Also excludes James Brady, who was permanently disabled by a gunshot wound 69 days into his tenure, and George Stephanopoulos, who briefed the press during his tenure as Communications Director though the title formally belonged to Dee Dee Myers.
- Excluding interim appointments. Behind Edmund Muskie and Lawrence Eagleburger.
- Coats or Gordon may be the "senior national security official" who told Jake Tapper: "Everyone at this point ignores what the president says and just does their job. The American people should take some measure of confidence in that."
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