Other Administration Appointees

Department of Defense


Secretary of the Navy – nominee

John Phelan
Private Investor

A major donor to the Trump campaign, Phelan founded Rugger Management LLC, a private investment firm. Phelan also co-founded MSD Capital, the private investment firm for Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies. Phelan held an advisory position on the Spirit of America, a nonprofit that supports Ukraine and Taiwan defense.

Secretary of the Army – nominee

Daniel P. Driscoll
Senior Advisor to Vice President JD Vance

An army veteran serving as an armor officer from 2007 to 2011, Driscoll was deployed to Iraq and left the army ranking as a First Lieutenant. After his service, Driscoll worked in venture capital and private equity. Currently, Driscoll is a senior advisor to vice president JD Vance.

Secretary of the Air Force

Dr. Troy Meink
Principal Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Office | Former Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space

Meink, the principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, served as the deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for space during the Obama administration. He joined the Air Force in 1988 and has served in several notable positions as a test engineer for missile defense systems and a KC-135 Tanker navigator.

Undersecretary of the Air Force

Colonel Matthew Lohmeier
Former Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force and Space Force

Lohmeier was a fighter pilot and lieutenant colonel in the Air Force before he transferred to be a squadron commander in the Space Force. He wrote the 2021 book, Irresistible Revolution, and went on to host the Matt Lohmeir Show. He graduated from the US Air Force Academy and has a master’s degrees from the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.

Deputy Secretary – nominee

Stephen Feinberg
Former Chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board Under Trump

Feinberg founded his company Cerberus Capital Management, where he serves as the CEO, in 1992. He served as the chairman of the Intelligence Advisory Board during Trump’s first administration from 2018 to 2021. He is a graduate of Princeton University.

Chief of Staff to the Secretary – nominee

Joe Kasper
Managing Director at Ervin Graves | Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for US Senate Affairs at DHS | Senior Advisor for Strategy, Policy, and Plans at the DHS

Kasper, a managing director at Ervin Graves, was deputy assistant secretary for US Senate Affairs, and later, senior advisor for Strategy, Policy, and Plans at the Department of Homeland Security. Before that, he spent three years in the Department of Defense.

Undersecretary for Policy -nominee

Elbridge “Bridge” Colby
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development

Colby is the co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative. From 2017 to 2018, he was the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development. Afterwards, Colby was director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).

Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment – nominee

Michael Duffey
Former DOD Chief of Staff Under Trump

Duffey served in multiple positions in the Department of Defense, one of which being chief of staff for the Department of Defense, and the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first administration. Duffey was the White House liaison during the George W. Bush administration. More recently, he was on Trump’s transition team.

Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering – nominee

Emil Michael  
Former Chief Business Officer of Uber

Michael was the chief business officer of Uber. He served as a special assistant to the secretary of Defense when he was a White House fellow from 2009 to 2011. In addition to his time at Uber, he has worked as the COO of Klout, and as an advisor to various tech companies.

Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs – nominee

Keith Bass
Former Navy Commander

Bass, a retired navy commander, is the medical center director for West Texas VA Health Care System, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 17. He has led medical departments in the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House Medical Unit.


Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs – nominee

Dr. Paul R. Lawrence, Ph.D.
Former Undersecretary of Benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs

As undersecretary of Veterans Affairs during Trump’s first administration, Lawrence oversaw the 20,000 employees and 56 regional offices distributing veteran benefits. Prior to his VA service, he was a vice president at Kaiser Associates. He spent 30 years in management consulting, working as a partner at Ernst & Young and other firms. He was a captain in the US Army and is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal.

Enviornmental Protection Agency


Deputy Administrator – nominee

David Fotouhi
Former Acting General Counsel for the EPA

Fotouhi is a partner in the DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher after serving as the acting general counsel and principle deputy counsel at the EPA during Trump’s first term. Before his time at the EPA, Fotouhi was part of Gibson Dunn’s Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort practice group.

Department of State


Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Protocol (Ambassador Rank) – nominee

Monica Crowley
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs

Crowley, a former analyst for Fox News, is a bestselling author, anchor and podcast host. Crowley was a foreign policy assistant to President Nixon and worked at the Department of Treasury during the Trump administration. If confirmed, Crowley will act as the US representative for the World Cup and Olympics.

Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment – nominee

Jacob Helberg
Commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission | Senior Advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies

Helberg is a senior advisor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies, a commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and a fellow at CNAS. He wrote The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power and previously worked for Google.

Ambassador to NATO – nominee

Matthew Whitaker
Former Acting Attorney General and US Attorney

Whitaker was the acting attorney general between Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr’s tenure during the first Trump administration. Coming out of a law enforcement background, Whitaker served as a US attorney for the Southern District of Iowa.

Ambassador to the United Kingdom/Court of St. James

Warren Stephens
Ambassador to the UK and Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.

Stephens is an American businessman. He serves as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Stephens Inc., a privately owned investment bank. President Donald Trump nominated Stephens to be the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas – nominee

Herschel Walker
Former Professional Football Player | Former Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition

Walker was a running back at UGA, receiving a Heisman Trophy before he went on to play in the USFL and the NFL. He served as a spokesman for the Universal Health Services’ Patriot Support Program and was the chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition during the first Trump administration. Walker was the Trump-endorsed Senate candidate in Georgia’s 2022 election, which was won by Senator Raphael Warnock.

Ambassador to France

Charles Kushner
Ambassador to France and Founder of Kushner Companies

Kushner is an American real estate developer and a former attorney. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. His son, Jared Kushner, is married to Ivanka Trump and is the son-in-law of President Trump. During Trump’s presidency, Jared served as a senior advisor from 2017 to 2021.

Ambassador to the Netherlands – nominee

Joe Popolo
Founder and CEO of Charles and Potomac Capital, LLC

Popolo is the founder and CEO of Charles and Potomac Capital, LLC, the chairman of the Board of Pinnacle Live, LLC, and a board member of Ondas Holdings. Popolo led the Freeman Company, the world’s largest event production company, as CEO and president. At Freeman, he grew it to a US$3B company and sold its technology subsidiary to Blackstone in 2019. He received the “E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year” award and the Dallas Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEO” award.

Ambassador to Spain – nominee

Benjamin Leon Jr.
Founder of Leon Medical Centers

Benjamín León, Jr., is a Cuban immigrant who founded Leon Medical Centers in 1996. Prior to that, he co-founded Clínica Asociación Cubana (CAC) with his father in 1970. Leon is a native south Floridian, and has made significant philanthropic contributions to Miami Dade College, and Florida International University.

Ambassador to Switzerland – nominee

Callista L. Gingrich
Former Ambassador to the Holy See

Gingrich is the president and CEO of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company. She was the ambassador to the Holy See during the first Trump administration. She is married to Newt Gingrich, the former US House speaker.

Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark – nominee

Ken Howery
Former Ambassador to Sweden Under Trump

Howery was a co-founder of PayPal and venture capital fund, Founders Fund. He is a founding advisor at Kiva.org, a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, and a former board member of the Board of Directors of the Explorers Club.

Ambassador to New Zealand and the Independent State of Samoa

Jared Novelly
Chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management

Novelly is the owner of the Australian basketball Illawarra Hawks team and served as the chairman of Crest Sports and Entertainment and Crest Management. Novelly is also an East Asia Super League Basketball shareholder.

Ambassador to New Zealand and the Independent State of Samoa

Andrew F. Puzder
Former CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc.

Puzder spent 17 years as the chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent of international restaurant chains Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s. Puzder was nominated to head Trump’s Department of Labor during the first Trump administration before he withdrew from consideration.

Ambassador to Italy – nominee

Tilman J. Fertitta
CEO of Landry’s | Owner of Houston Rockets

Fertitta is the CEO of Landry’s and owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team. He starred in CNBC’s reality show Billion Dollar Buyer. He is the longest serving chairman of the Board of Regents for the University of Houston and a donor to Trump’s Save America PAC.

Special Envoy to the United Kingdom – nominee

Mark Burnett
Former Chair of MGM’s Television Studio | Producer of The Apprentice

Burnett is the former chair of MGM’s television studio and producer of several shows, including Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, as well as Trump’s show, The Apprentice. He has received 13 Emmy Awards. Brunett was born in the UK. This is a first-time appointment by a president to have an ambassador and a special envoy to the UK

Special Envoy for Latin America – nominee

Mauricio Claver-Carone
Former Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council Under President Trump | Former president of the Inter-American Development Bank

Claver-Carone is the managing partner and Investment Committee co-chair of the Latin America Real Assets Opportunities Fund (“LARA Fund”). Before his time at the LARA Fund, Claver-Carone served as president and chairman of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (“IDB”) after serving the Trump White House.

Ambassador to Japan -nominee

Ambassador George Glass
Former US Ambassador to Portugal

Before serving as the ambassador to Portugal under Trump, Glass was the owner and managing partner of MGG Development LLC. Prior to that, Glass was the founder, president and vice chairman of Pacific Crest Securities. He is a long time Trump donor who served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon.

Ambassador to Israel – nominee

Former Governor Mike Huckabee
Former Governor of Arkansas

Huckabee served as the governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He ran in the Republican presidential primaries in 2008 and 2016. The former Baptist minister most recently has worked as a commentator on Fox News.

Ambassador to the Holy See – nominee

Brian Burch
President and Co-Founder of CatholicVote (CV)

Burch, the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, is the co-author of the America Catholic Daily Reader, the author of “A New Catholic Moment: Donald Trump and the Politics of the Common Good” published in 2020. He regularly makes appearances on Fox News, Newsmax, New Nation, and BlazeTV. 

Ambassador to Sweden – nominee

Christine Jack Toretti
Chairman of S&T Bancorp | Former Director, Federal Reserve of Pittsburgh | Republican National Committeewoman for Pennsylvania

Toretti was a RNC committeewoman for Pennsylvania and chairman of S&T Bancorp. Before her time at S&T, she was the director of the Pittsburgh Federal Reserve Bank. Toretti was a board member of the International Medical Corps, director of the NCAA Foundation, founding director of the Gettysburg Foundation and is the recipient of the Athena International Global Award.

Ambassador to Croatia -nominee

Nicole McGraw
Art Collector and Gallery Owner

McGraw is an Art Collector and gallery owner, opening her gallery in Palm Beach Gardens in 2006. She is founder of the nonprofit CANVAS Art Charities and runs the CANVAS Art Hedge Fund. She is a board member of Place of Hope.  

Ambassador to Uruguay – nominee

Lou Rinaldi
Businessman | Golfer

Rinaldi is one of Trump’s personal friends. He is a contractor and engineer and has been a vendor in the construction of some of Trump’s courses. Rinaldi’s family emigrated to Uruguay from Italy. Rinaldi grew up in Uruguay and is a businessman and entrepreneur with an interest in golf.

Ambassador to Canada – nominee

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra
Former Ambassador to the Netherlands and former Chair, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Hoekstra served as a Michigan congressman from 1993 to 2011. During this time, he served as chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Hoekstra served as the United State ambassador to the Netherlands during President Trump’s first administration.

Ambassador to the Dominican Republic – nominee

Leah Francis Campos
Former Senior Advisor for the Western Hemisphere, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

After working as an operations officer for the CIA, Campos served the US House of Representatives for almost five years as a senior advisor on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Her sister is Fox News host Rachel Campos Duffy, and her brother-in-law is Sean Duffy, a former congressman and Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Transportation.

Ambassador to Mexico -nominee

Ronald (Ron) Johnson
Former Ambassador to El Salvador | CIA’s Science and Technology Liaison to the US Special Operations Command

Johnson spent years in the US Army, where he was deployed to Panama and served in the Southern Command Area of Responsibility. After his time in the military, Johnson spent over 20 years working for the CIA. He served as the US Ambassador to El Salvador under Trump.

Ambassador to the Republic of Austria – nominee

Art Fisher
President of Fisher Realty | Senate Appointee to the North Caroline Travel and Tourism Board

In addition to being a broker associate for Fisher Realty, Fisher is a trustee of Brevard College and the Pisgah Health Foundation. He is also a board member of United Community Bank and a Senate appointee to the North Carolina Travel and Tourism Board.

Ambassador to Turkey – nominee

Tom Barrack 
Founder of Colony Capital (now DigitalBridge)

Tom Barrack is the founder of Colony Capital, and worked for the company, now called DigitalBridge, until 2021. Barrack previously served as deputy secretary at the Department of Interior during the Reagan administration. Barrack was a senior advisor to the Trump 2016 campaign and chaired the 2017 inaugural committee.

Ambassador to Greece – nominee

Kimberly Guilfoyle
Former Fox News Host | Trump 2020 Campaign Finance Chair

Guilfoyle served as the 2020 Trump campaign finance chair. Before joining the Trump campaign, she spent over a decade as a Fox News host and spent time as a prosecutor in California. She spoke at the last two Republican National Conventions.

Ambassador to Chile

Ambassador Brandon Judd
Former President of the National Border Patrol Council | Former President of the National Border Patrol Union

Before becoming the president of the National Border Patrol Council, Judd was the president of the National Border Patrol Union. He spent more than 15 years as a border patrol agent and served as an instructor at the Border Patrol Academy.

Ambassador to Luxembourg – nominee

Stacey Feinberg
President of 33 Capital LLC

Feinberg worked for Bob Wolf Associates, her father—Bob Wolf’s—sports and entertainment law firm, before forming JLF Asset Management, a hedge fund. Feinberg is the President of 33 Capital LLC and is the director of the board for the Women’s Founders Network.

Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China

Senator David Perdue
Former Senator, GA

Perdue, a management consultant and business executive, served as a Georgia US Senator from 2015 to 2021, and ran for governor of Georgia in 2022. During his time in the Senate, Perdue was on the Armed Services Committee as the chair of the Sea Power Subcommittee and also held a position on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium – nominee

Bill White
CEO and Founder, Constellations Group

In 2010, White founded Constellations Group, a strategic advisory and consulting firm that provides counsel on business and philanthropic concerns. He is the former president of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. White is a resident of Atlanta and New York and served as a major fundraiser for both Republican and Democratic officials.

Ambassador to Ireland – nominee

Edward Walsh
President of Walsh Company

Walsh is the president of Walsh Company, a construction and real estate firm which he founded in 2003. Before founding Walsh Company, Walsh was the senior vice president at Gale and Wentworth. He also served as the chairman of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority board.

Deputy Secretary – nominee

Ambassador Christopher Landau
Former Ambassador to Mexico

From 2019 to 2021, Landau served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico under President Trump. He has spent over 30 years as a lawyer and clerked for Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. He is of counsel at Ellis George, LLP. 

Counselor – nominee

Michael Needham
Former Chief of Staff to Senator Rubio

Needham is the chairman of American Compass and founder and executive director of America 2100. Before founding America 2100, Needham spent five years as the chief of staff for secretary of state Senator Marco Rubio. Before joining Rubio, Needham was the CEO of Heritage Action for America.

Director of Policy Planning – nominee

Michael Anton
Former Spokesman for the National Security Council  

Anton is a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. In the 2016 election, he wrote the influential essay, “The Flight 93 Election” supporting Trump’s candidacy for a Claremont publication. Before his time as a spokesman for the National Security Council under Trump, he held a national security position in the George W. Bush Administration.

Director of the Office of Personnel Management – nominee

Scott Kupor
Investing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Kupor is an investing partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Before that, he was vice president and general manager of software-as-a-service at Hewlett Packard. He is also the former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. Kupor has a bachelor’s and law degree from Stanford University.

Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources -nominee

Michael J. Rigas
Former Deputy and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and the Acting Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget

Prior to his time serving during the first Trump administration, Rigas was a senior advisor and associate administrator at the General Services Administration. Rigas was also chief of staff at the Massachusetts Department of Veterans’ Services and spent time at the Heritage Foundation.

Ambassador to Colombia -nominee

Daniel J. Newlin
Law Firm Owner and Trump Donor

After a 28-year career in law enforcement, Newlin founded Dan Newlin Injury Attorneys, the second largest personal injury law firm in the country. Newlin was a significant donor to Trump’s campaign and the fund supporting the family of the victim killed during the assassination attempt on Trump in July.  He received the Distinguished Service Medal for Sustained Superior Performance for his time as a sheriff’s detective at the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Ambassador to Argentina – nominee

Dr. Peter Lamelas, MD, MBA
Founder of MD Now Urgent Care | Former member of the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board

Lamelas, a Cuban immigrant, is the founder of MD Now Urgent Care, an urgent care system in Florida. An ER doctor for 20 years, he served on the State of Florida Board of Medicine. During Trump’s first term, Lamelas was on the Department of Justice’s Medal of Valor Review Board.

Ambassador to Portugal – nominee

 John Arrigo
Vice President of the Arrigo Auto Group

Arrigo was the vice president of the Arrigo Auto Group, located in West Palm Beach, where he has worked for more than 35 years. He is a long-time associate of Trump. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1985.

Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) – nominee

Leandro Rizzuto Jr
Former US Consul General to Bermuda

From 1982 to 2013, Rizzuto Jr held executive roles at Conair, his family’s company. He received the UNICO Garibaldi Award in 2011. Leandro Rizzuto Jr was the US Consul General during the first Trump administration. Rizzuto Jr then went on to serve on the board of a Trump super PAC.

Ambassador to the Republic of Panama – nominee

Kevin Marino Cabrera
Miami-Dade County Commissioner | Vice Chairman of the International Trade Consortium

Cabrera served in Trump’s 2020 Florida reelection campaign as state director. He was the Miami-Dade County commissioner, and the vice chairman of the International Trade Consortium. In 2024, he served as a member of the RNC Platform Committee.

Ambassador to the Republic of Malta – nominee

Somers Farkas
Vice President of the Arrigo Auto Former President’s Commission on White House Fellowships member | Former model | Former Advertising Executive

In 2017 Farkas, a former model and advertising executive, was appointed to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. She is a Trustee of the New York City Police Foundation and an Honorary Battalion Chief of the Fire Department of the City of New York.

Spokesperson

Tammy Bruce
Political Analyst

Bruce is a political analyst who has served as a contributor at FOX News for almost 20 years, who hosts her own radio show, The Tammy Bruce Show. Bruce worked on several democratic campaigns before changing her party affiliation and becoming a conservative.

Department of Treasury


Deputy Secretary – nominee

Dr. Michael Faulkender
Former Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy | The Dean’s Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business | AFPI’s Chief Economist and Senior Advisor for the Center for American Prosperity

Faulkender is the dean’s professor of finance at the University of Maryland and is a chief economist and senior advisor for the Center for American Prosperity at AFPI. Faulkender served during the Trump administration, is published in top finance journals. He has taught at universities across the country.

Senior Counselor to the Secretary – nominee

Alexandra Preate
Founder and CEO of CapitalHQ

Preate was the founder and chief executive officer of CapitalHQ. Alexandra worked with Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore and Steve Forbes to launch the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, an advocacy group for conservative economic policy. Preate also worked as director of the American Swiss Foundation and was a founding member of the Monday Meeting in New York City.

Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy – nominee

Ken Kies
Tax Lawyer | Former Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation

Kies, a tax lawyer and lobbyist for 47 years, and has served as the chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the chief republican tax counsel of the House Ways and Means Committee. He was managing director of the Federal Policy Group, LLC.

Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – nominee

Billy Long
Former Representative, R MO 7 | Auctioneer| Business and Tax Advisor

Before joining Congress, Long spent over 30 years running his auctioneering business, Billy Long Auctions LLC. From 2011 to 2023, the auctioneer and radio personality served as the Representative for Missouri’s  7th Congressional District. After 12 years in Congress, Long now works as a business and tax advisor.

Department of Justice


Head of the Office of Legal Policy (OLP) – nominee

Aaron Reitz
Senator Ted Cruz’s Chief of Staff

Before serving as Senator Ted Cruz’s chief of staff, Reitz was Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s deputy. He was an officer in the US Marine Corps, where he spent five years deployed in Afghanistan. He graduated from Texas A&M University and has a law degree from University of Texas School of Law.

FBI Director – nominee

Kash Patel
Former Prosecutor

Kash Patel is a former prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. Previously, he was chief of staff to the US Secretary of Defense during the first Trump Administration. He was also a US National Security Council official, and senior advisor to the acting director of National Intelligence. Patel would be the first non-FBI agent to lead the FBI.

Chief of Staff – nominee

Chad Mizelle
Former General Counsel at DHS | Former Chief of Staff at the DHS

Mizell is the chief legal officer at Affinity Partners, before which he was of counsel with the law firm Jones Day. During Trump’s first administration, Mizelle served as general counsel and chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security. He is married to Kathryn Mizelle, a Trump-appointed judge who struck down the federal mask mandate.

Solicitor General – nominee

D. John Sauer
Former Solicitor General of Missouri

Sauer is a former federal prosecutor who served as Missouri’s solicitor general from 2017 to 2023. In that role, he tried to intervene on behalf of Missouri and five other states in support of Texas’ unsuccessful fight to keep President Trump in power by challenging the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Sauer went on to successfully represent President Trump at the Supreme Court in his bid for presidential immunity.

Deputy Attorney General nominee

Todd Blanche
Criminal Defense Attorney for Trump

Blanche is a lawyer who oversaw President Trump’s defense against multiple indictments.

Blanche rose to head violent crimes at the Southern District of New York, before heading to WilmerHale. Blanche then launched his own law practice, taking on President Trump as a client.

Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights – new

Leo Terrell
Civil Rights Attorney| Radio Host

Terrell, is a former Fox News contributor, public school teacher, radio host and civil rights attorney. He joined the NAACP in 1990 and was an advisory board member for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a member of the Statewide Commission Against Hate Crimes and the chairman of the Black-Korean Alliance.  

Attorney for the Eastern District of New York

Joseph Nocella, Jr.
Former District Court Judge | Family Court Judge

Judge Nocella served as a Nassau County District Court judge and Family Court judge. He has a law degree from Columbia Law School and spent over ten years in private practice. Nocella was also an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1991 to 1995.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights – nominee

Harmeet K. Dhillon
Managing Partner of the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. | Founder of the Center for American Liberty

Dhillon, a member of the Sikh religious community, is the managing partner of the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. Dhillon is the former vice chair of the California GOP. She also founded the nonprofit law firm the Center for American Liberty.

Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division – nominee

Gail Slater
Former Tech Policy Advisor on the National Economic Council, the FTC, advisor in JD Vance’s senate office

Slater is an experienced lawyer and tech and media policy advisor who worked for FOX Corporation and Roku, along with other tech groups. Slater, a former policy advisor for vice president JD Vance’s Senate office, also served as a tech policy advisor at the National Economic Council under President Trump.

Securities and Exchange Commission


Chairman – nominee

Paul Atkins
Former SEC Commissioner | CEO and Founder of Patomak Global Partners

Atkins, the CEO and Founder of Patomak Global Partners, initially worked as a lawyer in the financial market sectors. In the 1990s, Atkins worked for two former SEC chairmen, and from 2002 to 2008, he served as the SEC commissioner. Atkins was also a member of the President Trump’s strategic and policy forum.

Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) – nominee

David Fink
Former Pan Am Railways President

Fink, the son of a career railroader, has spent over 45 years in transportation leadership, starting his career in the 1980s working for General Motors. Fink was the president of Pan Am Railways from 2006 until 2022 when the company was acquired by CSX Transportation.

Federal Communications Commission


Federal Communications Commission – nominee

Brendan Carr
Commissioner of FCC

The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, Carr previously served as the FCC’s general counsel. Nominated by both President Trump and President Biden, Carr has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times.

Commissioner

Olivia Trusty
Policy Director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Olivia is currently the policy director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. She previously worked handling telecommunications and technology for Senator Wicker, worked on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, and worked as legislative assistant for Congressman Latta.

Health and Human Services


Deputy Secretary of HHS – nominee

Jim O’Neill
Former HHS Principal Associate Deputy Secretary

O’Neill is the former CEO of the Thiel Foundation and has strong ties to Silicon Valley. He co-founded the Thiel Fellowship and spent time as the CEO of the SENS Research Foundation, an anti-aging nonprofit. O’Neill served as the Health and Human Services principal associate deputy secretary during the George H. W. Bush administration.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – nominee

Dr. Mehmet Oz
TV Personality, Physician

The celebrity heart surgeon had his own show, “the Dr. OZ Show” for over ten years. He is a New York Times bestselling author, an Emmy-winning TV show host and founder of a nonprofit promoting healthy habits for teens.

Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration – nominee

Dr. Marty Makary
Chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins

Dr. Makary is a health care expert and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University. Makary is also a New York Times best-selling author who served in leadership at the World Health Organization. Dr. Makary has received the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation.

Surgeon General for HHS

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat
New York Medical Director and Fox News Contributor

Dr. Nesheiwat has held the position of assistant medical director at CityMD and is a medical contributor for Fox News. In her early career, she was the host of Jones TV’s Family Health Today. Dr. Nesheiwat wrote the book Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine, set to be released on December 17, 2024. Her sister, Julia Nesheiwat, a former Army officer, served as the homeland security advisor during the first Trump administration.

Department of Transportation


Deputy Secretary – nominee

Steven Gill Bradbury
Former General Counsel of the Department of Transportation

During Trump’s first administration, Bradbury served as the general counsel of the Department of Transportation. He also served as principle deputy and acting assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel at the Department of Justice under George W. Bush. He has been a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and at Dechert LLP.

National Institutes of Health


Director of the National Institutes of Health – nominee

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Doctor and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University

Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. He also holds positions as an associate and senior fellow at several renowned research institutes. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world.

Centers for Disease Control


Director of the Centers for Disease Control

Dr. Dave Weldon
Former Congressman and Doctor

Weldon is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida’s 15th congressional district. He served in the United States Army from 1981 to 1987 and in the United States Army Reserve from 1987 to 1992. After earning his MD, he worked as a physician in Florida.

National Aeronautical and Space Administration


National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator – nominee  

Jared Isaacman
Pilot | Astronaut | CEO of Shift4 | Co Founder of Draken International

Isaacman, a tech billionaire, became the first private astronaut to conduct a spacewalk, which was made possible by a SpaceX capsule. He is the founder and CEO of Shift4, an online payment company, and is the co-founder and former CEO of Draken International.

Department of Government Efficiency


Co-Chair

Elon Musk
Entrepreneur

Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the Boring Company, social media site X, and Open AI. He is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $323 billion.

DOGE

Katie Miller
Former Communications Director for the Vice President | Former Press Secretary to the Vice President

Early in her career, Miller worked for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as a deputy press secretary to the US Department of Homeland Security, and as a senior staffer to republican senators before joining the first Trump administration. She is married to the White House deputy chief of staff for Policy, Stephen Miller.

Social Security Administration


Commissioner of the Social Security Administration – nominee

Frank Bisignano
Chairman, President and CEO of Fiserv Corporation

Bisignano is the chairman, president and CEO of Fiserv Corporation, which he joined when it merged with First Data Corporation in 2019. Before that, Bisignano was a top executive at JP Morgan Chase and Co. He has held senior positions at Citigroup and has a number of nonprofit commitments.

CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media

L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President of the Media Research Center

Bozell spent 38 years as the founder and president of the Media Research Center. He was the founder and first president of the Parents Television Council, and he spent time as the finance director, then president, of the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the National Conservative Foundation.

Department of Interior


Deputy Secretary – nominee

Katharine MacGregor
Vice President of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc.

MacGregor, the vice president of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc., worked at the Department of Interior under Trump. Before joining the Trump administration, MacGregor spent over 10 years as a staffer at the US House of Representatives. More than half of that time was spent working for the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Department of Energy


Undersecretary for Nuclear Security and National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator

Brandon Williams
Former New York Congressman (R-22) |Former US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer and Strategic Missile Officer

Williams, a businessman and Veteran, was a New York congressman from 2023 to 2025. During his time in the Navy, he served as a Nuclear Submarine officer, and Strategic Missile officer. He graduated from Pepperdine University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Undersecretary of Energy

Wells Griffith
Former Senior Director for Energy and Environment on the National Security Council | Former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Energy

During the first Trump administration, Griffith served as the senior director for Energy and Environment on the National Security Council, as well as acting assistant secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Energy. He went on to be senior advisor and managing director to the CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation before working for FTI consulting.

Department of Homeland Security


Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection -nominee

Rodney S. Scott
24th Chief of the US Border Patrol

From 2020 to 2021 Scott served as the chief of the US Border Patrol, a division of Customs and Border Protection with over 20,000 agents. Before this role, he held the positions of chief patrol agent for the El Centro and the San Diego sector, anti-terrorism advisor to the CBP Commissioner, and the deputy executive director of the CBP’s Office of Anti-Terrorism.

Director of the United States Secret Service

Sean Curran
Former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division

Curran served as the assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division during the first Trump administrations. He started working for the Secret Service in 2001 as a special agent in the Newark Field Office. He was one of the agents who protected the President during the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – nominee

Caleb Vitello
Assistant Director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs| Former White House Director of Interior Enforcement

Before Vitello’s current position at ICE as assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs, he served as chief of staff in ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). He joined ICE after his time at the White House as the director of Interior Enforcement.

Deputy Secretary – nominee

Troy Edgar
Former Chief Financial Officer and Associate Deputy Under Secretary of Management for Homeland Security

Edgar, currently an executive at IBM, served three terms as the Mayor of Los Alamitos, California. Edgar also founded Global Conductor, a management consulting firm, serving as its president and CEO before serving for the first Trump administration. He hosts a podcast, Ameritocracy, and is a US Navy Veteran.

Federal Trade Commission


Chair of the Federal Trade Commission- nominee

Andrew N. Ferguson
Commissioner of The Federal Trade Commission

Before starting his role as commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in April of 2024, Ferguson was the solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has also served as chief counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell and as a republican counsel on the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

Federal Trade Commission – Commissioner – nominee

Mark R. Meador
Former Advisor for Senator Mike Lee

Meador spent three years advising Senator Mike Lee, the ranking republican on the Senate antitrust subcommittee, before starting the law firm Kressin Meador Powers. Before his time with Lee, Meador was an attorney for the FTC from 2011 to 2016, and a trial attorney for the DOJ Antitrust Division from 2019 to 2021.

Memorial Affairs


Undersecretary for Memorial Affairs – nominee

Sam Brown
Veteran| Small Business Owner

Brown, a purple heart recipient, was medically retired from the US Military as a captain after a deployment in Afghanistan. After his time in the military, Brown received an MBA from SMU and started a small business that provides emergency pharmaceutical support to veterans outside of the VA. Brown was the republican candidate in the US Senate race in November, which he lost to incumbent Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV).

Small Business Administration


Chief Counsel for Advocacy for the Small Business Administration– nominee

Casey B. Mulligan
Former Chief Economist of the Council of Economic Advisors

Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, was a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at America First Policy Institute. Before that, he was chief economist of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the first Trump administration. In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago, Mulligan has taught at Harvard and Clemson University.

Deputy Administrator of the US Small Business Administration – nominee

Bill Briggs
Former Acting Associate Administrator in the Office of Capital Access at SBA

Briggs was the first CEO of the Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) Association. During Trump’s first term, Briggs served in several roles at the Small Business Administration, first as a senior advisor, then as a deputy associate administrator, and finally as the acting associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access. He graduated with a BA from the University of Michigan.

Assistant Administrator for Disaster Recovery and Resilience

Chris Stallings
Director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency         

Stallings spent the past four years as the director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Before joining the agency, he spent more than 12 years serving the Georgia State Patrol. Stallings attended LaGrange College.

Department of Agriculture


USDA Deputy Secretary – nominee

Stephen Alexander Vaden
Former General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture

During Trump’s first term, Vaden was the general counsel of the Department of Agriculture, and a member of the Board of the Commodity Credit Corporation. After his time at the USDA, Vaden was appointed to serve as a justice on the Court of International Trade. Vaden operates his family farm in Union City, Tennessee.

Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation

Richard Fordyce
Former Administrator of the USDA Farm Service Agency | Former Missouri Director of Agriculture

Fordyce, the owner of Fordyce Farms, spent three years as the director for the Missouri Department of Agriculture before working as the administrator of the Farm Service Agency at USDA during the first Trump administration. After his time at the Trump administration, he served as the business growth director for Agriculture at Osborn Barr Paramore.

Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agriculture Affairs

Luke Lindberg
President and CEO of South Dakota Trade | Former Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer at the Export-Import Bank

Lindberg, the president and CEO of South Dakota Trade, worked for the Export-Import Bank during Trump’s First administration. He earned the Distinguished Service Award for his time as chief of staff and chief strategy officer at the Export-Import Bank. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of District Export Councils. Lindberg is the son-in-law of Senate majority leader John Thune.

Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment

Michael Boren
Founder of Clearwater Analytics

Boren, the founder of Clearwater Analytics, is an Idaho investment consultant and republican campaign donor. He has founded six different companies and served as a volunteer fireman for Sawtooth Valley Rural Fire Department. He was also a board member of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation.

Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulator Programs

Dudley Hoskins
Counsel on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry | Former USDA Chief of Staff for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, and Senior Advisor to the Secretary

Hoskins served as counsel on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and as the USDA’s chief of staff for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, and senior advisor to the secretary under Trump. Before his time working for the Trump administration, he was public policy counsel for the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture.

Department of Labor


Deputy Secretary of Labor

Keith Sonderling
Former Vice-Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Former Acting Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor

Sonderling was the vice-chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor during the first Trump administration. After his time at the Trump administration, he stayed at the EEOC as a commissioner and served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School.

Department of Education


 Deputy Secretary – nominee

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Penny Schwinn
Former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education

Schwinn served as the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education. She was the deputy commissioner of Standards and Engagement, deputy commissioner of Special Populations and Monitoring and chief deputy commissioner of Academics at the Texas Education Agency. Schwinn was also the assistant secretary of Education of Delaware.

Other


Voice of America – Director-nominee

Kari Lake
Former News Anchor

Lake, a news anchor in Arizona, had a 27-year career in media. Starting off as a weather reporter at 12 News, she went on to join Fox 10 News in Phoenix. After leaving the station in 2021, Lake went on to run for governor and senator of Arizona.

Federal Housing Finance Agency – Director

Bill Pulte
Private Equity Executive

Pulte is the grandson of the founder of the Fortune 500 company, the PulteGroup. He is known for his philanthropic work on X, where he distributes and raises money for people in need.