White House Staff

Stanley Woodward, Jr.
Co-Founder of Brand Woodward Law, LP

Before Woodward co-founded Brand Woodward Law, LP, he worked at a multinational law firm. In 2018, he received the DC Bar’s Laura N. Rinaldi Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year award. He also served as an adjunct professor with the Catholic University Columbus School of Law and taught in Namibia with Lawyers Without Borders.

Dan Scavino
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications under Trump, Trump Campaign Senior Advisor

A veteran of all three of President Trump’s presidential campaigns, Scavino will return as deputy chief of staff for Communications. Previously, Scavino served as director of White House social media and advised the Trump campaign on media.

William “Beau” Harrison
Former White House Operations Aide

During President Trump’s first term, Harrison served as a White House operations aide. He participated in and led multiple US delegations in countries such as North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, and helped plan summits with DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un. He is a recipient of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

Nicholas Luna
Director of Operations for Vice President JD Vance

Luna was the director of operations for Vice President JD Vance. During the first Trump administration, he served in the White House as presidential trip director, personal aide to the President, assistant to the President, and director of Oval Office Operations. He has a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt.

Stephen Miller
Senior Advisor to the President under Trump, Campaign Senior Advisor

The senior policy advisor for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Miller continued serving Trump during his first administration. Miller was the senior advisor to the president and White House director of speech writing during Trump’s first administration. In 2021, Miller founded the America First Legal Foundation, which he has continued to lead.

May Mailman
Former Associate Staff Secretary; Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination; and Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the White House Counsel

Mailman served in Trump’s first administration as associate staff secretary, deputy assistant to the President for policy coordination, and deputy assistant to the President and advisor to the White House Counsel. She was the legal director of Independent Women’s Forum, deputy solicitor general for the state of Ohio, and vice president at Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections. She has also contributed to Fox News and NewsNation.

James Blair
Political Director, Trump Campaign and RNC

Blair previously founded a Florida-based political consulting firm and also served as deputy chief of staff for Governor Ron DeSantis. In the Florida government, Blair’s portfolio included domestic policy over children and family services and education.

Taylor Budowich
Trump Campaign Senior Advisor

Budowich served as the chief of staff to Donald Trump, Jr., during Trump’s 2020 campaign. After the election, Budowich started his own political consultancy, and was a spokesperson for President Trump. In 2021, he was communications director of the Save America Pac before launching and directing the MAGA Inc. PAC for Trump’s 2024 campaign in 2022.

Congressman Dan Bishop
Representative for NC-8

Bishop, a North Carolina congressman since 2019, serves on the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees and several other subcommittees. Bishop is a member on the executive board of the House Freedom Caucus. Before joining Congress, Bishop spent almost three decades practicing law.

Ed Martin
Former Chief of Staff to Governor Matt Blunt

Ed Martin is the president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund. He is the former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party. He wrote The Conservative Case for Trump with Phyllis Schlafly and Bret Decker in 2016.

Dr. Lynne Parker
Former Deputy US Chief of Technology Officer | Founding Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office

Parker is associate vice chancellor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT), and director of the AI Tennessee Initiative. She has served in three different White Houses. Most recently, from 2018 to 2022, Parker served in the White House as deputy US CTO, and founding director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office.

Michael J.K. Kratsios
Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House | Former Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering at the Pentagon

Kratsios is a fellow at Stanford and the managing director of Scale AI. Before joining the Trump administration, he was a principal at Theil Capital. During the Trump administration, Kratsios was the CTO of the US White House and undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. He also received the DoD’s Distinguished Public Service medal.

Sriram Krishnan
Internet Entrepreneur

Krishnan started his career at Microsoft as a founding member of Windows Azure. He has since worked for various tech companies, including Meta, Snap Inc, Twitter, and, most recently, as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He was born in Chennai, India.

Tony Salisbury
Special Agent in Charge (SAC) for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami

Salisbury, the SAC for ICE and HIS in Miami, was previously the acting deputy executive associate director for the ICE/HSI workforce. Among other top positions Salisbury held, he was the resident agent in charge for HIS in St. Louis. Salisbury’s first role in federal law enforcement was as a US Marshal.

Representative Mike Waltz
Florida’s 6^th Congressional District

Congressman Waltz has represented Florida’s 6^th District since 2019. He is a US Army and National Guard veteran, and the first member of the Green Berets elected to Congress. Waltz has served as a Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Accountability, Permanent Select Committee on intelligence, and China Task Force.

Alex Wong
Deputy National Security Advisor

Alex Wong is the deputy national security advisor for the Trump administration. Previously, he oversaw regional and security affairs in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Additionally, he was a foreign policy advisor and general counsel to Senator Tom Cotton and Foreign and Legal policy director for the Romney-Ryan 2012 campaign.

Sebastian Gorka
Senior Director for Counterrorism

Sebastian Gorka will serve as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism. He previously served as a national security advisor during the first Trump administration.

Vince Haley
Trump Campaign Speechwriter and Director of Policy

Haley was the Trump Campaign’s speech writer as well as the campaign’s director of Policy. During President Trump’s first administration, Haley served in the White House speech writing office. Before Haley worked on President Trump’s 2016 campaign, he spent 12 years working for former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).

Kevin Hassett
Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

Hasset worked at the American Enterprise Institute before joining the Trump administration in 2017, as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. Hassett left Trump’s first administration in 2019 and became a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He later returned to the Trump White House to advise on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Robin Colwell
Former Special Assistant to the President for Technology, Telecom and Cybersecurity Policy | Former Chief Counsel, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Colwell served as special assistant to the President for Technology, Telecom and Cybersecurity Policy and as chief counsel for communications and technology at the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives. Colwell also served as chief of staff to the Federal Communications Commission and as a Senate staffer. Outside of her time in government, she was an associate at Wiley Rein LLP and a principal at BGR Group.

Paige Willey
Former Special Assistant to the President for Political Affairs and as Associate Chief of Staff for the White House Council of Economic Advisers

Willey was special assistant to the President for political affairs and associate chief of staff for the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Trump administration. She has also served on Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s executive leadership team. Willey holds a BA from Swarthmore College.

Heidi Overton
White House Fellow in the Office of American Innovation and on the Domestic Policy Council | Chief Policy Officer and Vice Chair of the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute

In the first Trump administration, Overton served as a White House Fellow in the Office of American Innovation and on the Domestic Policy Council. Overton was chief policy officer and vice chair of the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute. Before that, Overton was a general surgery resident at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Sam Adolphsen
Policy Director at the Foundation for Government Accountability

Adolphsen was Policy Director at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Before that, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Commissioner of Finance at Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services and as the Director of the Center for Open Government and Director of Government and External Affairs at the Maine Heritage Policy Center.

Theo Merkel
Former Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the White House

Merkel served in Trump’s first administration as special assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the White House. He spent a decade working for the Senate and was director of the Private Health Reform Initiative and a senior research fellow for the Paragon Health Institute and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Scott Centorino 
Former Assistant Attorney General in the Louisiana Department of Justice

Centorino was vice president of Policy and Programs at Do No Harm Medicine, deputy policy director at the Foundation for Government Accountability, and executive director at Reformers Academy. He spent three years as assistant attorney general in the Louisiana Department of Justice and four years as an officer in the United States Army Reserve in the JAG Corps.

Wells King
Former Senior Policy Advisor to JD Vance in the Senate

King served as the senior policy advisor to JD Vance in the Senate and as an advisor to Senator Mike Lee on the Joint Economic Committee. He also worked as the founding research director of American Compass. Prior to his career in public policy, Wells was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

James Sherk
Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy on the White House Domestic Policy Council

Sherk served as special assistant to the President for domestic policy on the White House Domestic Policy Council during the first Trump administration. He was the director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. Prior to his White House service, Sherk was a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Eric Bledsoe
Former Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability

Bledsoe was a senior fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Before his work at FGA, he was senior director of Civics at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and an instructor at Florida State University. Bledsoe has a BA from the Catholic University of America and a master’s from Florida State University.

Anthony R. Dolan
Former Special Assistant and Advisor on Planning

Dolan served as senior advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell, special advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and as a special assistant and advisor on Planning during President Trump’s first term. He received a Pulitzer Prize while he was chief speechwriter in the Reagan White House.

Ryan Baasch
Former Texas Associate Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Solicitor General

Baasch previously served as Texas’s associate deputy attorney general and assistant solicitor general. Before his time in office, Baasch was an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. Baasch began his legal career as a law clerk for DC Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson and holds a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Kara Frederick
Director of the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation

Frederick was the director of the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation and a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a lecturer at George Washington University. She previously worked at Facebook and as an intelligence officer for the Department of Defense. She deployed to Afghanistan three times with tier one elements of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

Emory Cox
Former Associate Director of the National Economic Council

Cox served in the first Trump administration as the associate director of the NEC and in the Office of Presidential Personnel, after which he served as senior economic advisor to US Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University.

Emily Underwood
Clinical Professor of Law and the Bluhm-Helfand Director of the Innovation Clinic at The University of Chicago Law School

Underwood was a clinical professor of law and the Bluhm-Helfand director of the Innovation Clinic at The University of Chicago Law School. Before that, she practiced corporate law as an associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and prior to that, as an associate at Sidley Austin LLP.

Clark Milner
Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Chief Counsel to Senator Bill Hagerty

Milner was deputy chief of staff for Policy and chief counsel to Senator Bill Hagerty. He also served as deputy counsel to Governor Bill Lee and associate deputy counsel to Governor Bill Haslam, as a litigation associate with Bass, Berry, and Sims PLC in Nashville, and as a law clerk to Judge Thomas A. Varlan of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Cale Clingenpeel
External Advisor to President Trump’s 2024 Campaign | Former Senior Advisor to the Chairman and Economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers

During Trump’s first term, Clingenpeel served as the senior advisor to the chairman and economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. After that, he was chief economist of Greenmantle and led global research at a growth equity fund. Clingenpeel also served on the 2024 Republican National Convention Platform Committee policy staff and as an external economic advisor to President Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Andrew Lyon
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis at Treasury | Former Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers

Lyon served as deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis under President George W. Bush, as a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H. W. Bush, and on the staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. Outside of public service, Lyon was a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and was an associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland.

Jeff Wrase
Chief Economist on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, House and Senate Budget Committees

Wrase served on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, House and Senate Budget Committees, and Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and on the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy of the House Committee on Financial Services. He also served on the Senate Committee on Finance. Prior to his work in Congress, he was a senior economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and an economics professor.  

Joel M. Zinberg
Former Senior Economist and General Counsel at the White House Council of Economic Advisers

Zinberg served in the first Trump administration as senior economist and general counsel at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He practiced for nearly 30 years at New York’s Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, taught at Columbia University Law school for 10 years, and held health policy positions in New York State government, at the American Enterprise Institute, and as president of the New York County Medical Society.

Stephen Miran
Former Senior Advisor for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department

Before his time in the White House, Miran worked at Sovarnum Capital LP. After serving as a senior advisor for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department during the first Trump administration. He is a co-founder of Amberwave Partners, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital Management.  

Devin Nunes
Truth Social CEO | Former Chairman of The House Intelligence Committee

Nunez, a former Californian congressman, served in the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2022. During his congressional career, he served as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He has led Trump Media since 2021 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Trump.

David Warrington
General Counsel for the Trump Campaign

Warrington is a partner at Dhillon Law Group, where he runs the firm’s Political Law practice and is a member of the White Collar Litigation practices. The former president of the Republican National Lawyers Association and a Marine Corps veteran, Warrington acted as general counsel for the Trump campaign.

Mark Paoletta
Former General Counsel for the White House Office of Management and Budget  

Before his time serving Trump, Paoletta spent 10 years as chief counsel for Oversight and Investigations for the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the US House of Representatives. Before that, he was assistant counsel to President George H.W. Bush. He is a partner at Schaerr Jaffe LLP.

Peter Navarro
Former Director of the National Trade Council

Navarro is a professor emeritus at UC Irvine. He served as an economic and trade advisor during Trump’s 2016 campaign and served as the director of the National Trade Council during the Trump administration. He has also written several books, including Death by China.

Will Scharf
Trump’s Attorney | Former Federal Prosecutor | Former Policy Director in the Missouri Governor’s Office

Will Scharf, a personal attorney for Trump, is of counsel to the James Otis Law Group. Scharf has spent time as both a federal prosecutor and policy director in the Missouri Governor’s Office. Scharf worked on the confirmations of both Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

Sergio Gor
President and Co-Founder of Winning Team Publishing 

Gor is the president of the conservative publishing house, Winning Team Publishing, which he co-founded with Donald Trump, Jr. Gor has notably worked with Donald Trump, Jr., Rand Paul, Charlie Kirk and Eric Bolling. Gor also helped publish Trump’s book “Our Journey Together.”

Alina Habba
Advisor on Trump’s Campaign and Transition Team

Habba, the managing partner of Habba Madaio and Associates, LLP, is Trump’s former defense attorney and legal spokesperson for MAGA, Inc., Trump’s Super PAC. Habba was also an advisor on both Trump’s campaign and a member of his transition team. 

Steven Cheung
Trump Campaign Spokesman

Cheung, the former spokesperson for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Trump campaign became director of rapid response during Trump’s first presidency. He left the White House in 2018 and created a private firm that worked with Trump on his 2020 campaign.

Justin Caporale
Trump Campaign Spokesman

Caporale was the CEO of Event Strategies Inc, which staffed and managed Trump 2016 campaign events. During Trump’s first term, he served as an aide to Melania Trump. He went on to work for governor DeSantis, and on the Trump 2020 and 2024 campaigns.

Karoline Leavitt
Trump Campaign Press Secretary

Leavitt is the spokesperson for Trump’s transition and will be the youngest White House press secretary in history at age 27.

In 2022, she ran for Congress in New Hampshire, winning the Republican primary before losing to incumbent Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas. She worked in the White House press office during President Trump’s first term in office and for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).

James Braid
Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for JD Vance | Former Policy Director for the House Freedom Caucus| Former White House Liaison at the OMB

During the first Trump administration, James Braid was a White House liaison at the Office of Management and Budget. Braid, who also spent time at the Heritage Foundation, then went on to join Vice President Vance’s Senate staff. Braid was also the policy director for the House Freedom Caucus.

Alex Latcham
Former Deputy Political Director | Deputy Political Director for the Trump Campaign

Latcham, who was the deputy political director during the Trump administration, has been with Trump since 2016. Most recently, Latcham served as the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee’s deputy political director. Before his time with Trump, Latcham was a political director for the Republican Party of Iowa.

Tom Homan
Acting Director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump

Homan, a former Trump official in the Department of Homeland Security, is a 30-year veteran of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He served as executive associate director of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Obama.

David O. Sacks
Co-founder and Partner at Craft Ventures | Former PayPal COO

Sacks is a tech investor and founder of Yammer, a software company purchased by Microsoft in 2012. He is co-founder of Craft Ventures, a venture capital firm where he is currently a partner. Sacks is also a co-host of the All-In tech podcast.

Bo Hines
Business Owner | Former College Football Player

Hines is a business owner and operator who played football for North Carolina State University. He graduated from Yale University and Wake Forest University Law School. He unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives North Carolina seat in 2022.

Steve Witkoff
Inauguration Co-Chair and Real Estate Investor

Witkoff, a fellow New York and Florida real estate developer, is the co-chair of Trump’s inauguration. Witkoff is the chairman and CEO of Witkoff, which he founded in 1997. Before founding Witkoff, he co-founded Stellar Management Company, where he acquired and repositioned a portfolio of residential buildings in New York City.

Morgan Ortagus
US Navy Reserve Intelligence Officer | Former Spokesperson for the Department of State

Ortagus, a US Navy Reserve intelligence officer, served as a spokesperson at the Department of State during Trump’s first administrations. In 2022, Ortagus was endorsed by Trump in her unsuccessful congressional race in Tennessee. Before that, she served as a financial intelligence analyst at the Department of Treasury and as the deputy US Treasury attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Richard Grenell
Former Ambassador to Germany| Former Acting Director of National Intelligence| Former Presidential Envoy for Kosovo-Serbia Negotiations

Before Grenell’s time serving under the Trump administration, he spent seven years as the US spokesman at the United Nations. After his time at the UN, he became founding partner at Capitol Media Partners. He was also a Fox News Contributor and served as the foreign policy spokesperson for Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign.

Massad Boulos
Businessman

Boulos, father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is a Lebanese American billionaire businessman who helped the Trump campaign with Arab-American outreach in the key battleground state of Michigan.

General Keith Kellogg
Retired LTG, US Army, Former National Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence

Kellogg was the national security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence during the first Trump Administration. He also was chief of staff of the National Security Council and later, acting security advisor for President Trump after Michael Flynn left the administration. Kellog is a co-chairman of the American First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security.

Ed Russo
CEO of RussKap Water | Environmental Consultant

Russo was an environmental consultant for the Trump organization. He is the co-founder and CEO of RussKap Water and has also served as the CEO of WaterGen USA. In 2016, he wrote the book “Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero.” He has served on Florida Keys Environmental Coalition, the Board of Directors of Reef Relief, and the Monroe County Climate Change Advisory Board.