This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government.
Nominations and Appointments
AmeriCorps
Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and as Director of Youth Opportunity Programs at the Obama Foundation. During the Obama Administration, Smith was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs for the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, as well as director of the Social Innovation Fund at the Corporation for National and Community Service. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of Social Innovation at the Case Foundation. He is a member of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America alumni hall of fame and has served on the board of directors of Results for America and Venture Philanthropy Partners.1
Central Intelligence Agency
William J. Burns is Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He formerly served as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before that, he was Deputy Secretary of State at the U.S. Department of State from 2011-2014, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2008-2011, Ambassador to Russia from 2005-2008, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2001-2005, and Ambassador to Jordan from 1998-2001.2
Director of National Intelligence
Avril Haines is Director of National Intelligence. She formerly held various positions at Columbia University, including Senior Research Scholar, was a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and a member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. During the Obama Administration, she served as National Security Council Legal Advisor, as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013-2015, and as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor from 2015-2017. She was Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 2007-2008, while then-Senator Biden served as Chair.3 She has been a Distinguished Fellow at Syracuse University’s Institute for Security Policy and Law,4 a board member at the Center for a New American Security,5 an advisory board member at Foreign Policy for America,6 an advisory council member at Refugees International,7 and a member of the Bio Advisory Group at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.8 She has also served on the board of trustees at the Vodafone Foundation,9 and as a member of the advisory council of National Security Action.10
As reported by The Intercept, Haines’s biography from her time as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution listed her as a consultant for Palantir Technologies,11 and she was also a former Principal at WestExec Advisors, LLC.12 The archived biography from Brookings also lists additional affiliations, including as a member of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Encryption Working Group, an advisory council member of Network 20/20, an international advisory board member at Tikehau Investment Management, co-chair of the Simon Skojdt Center for the Prevention of Genocide Advisory Group at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics.13
Environmental Protection Agency
Dorien Paul Blythers is Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at the Environmental Protection Agency. He formerly served as political director for End Citizens United and Let America Vote. He was a regional political director for Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign, and also formerly held the position of public engagement program manager for the Climate Action Campaign.14
Tomas Elias Carbonell is Deputy Assistant Administrator for Stationary Sources in the Office of Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency. He formerly held several positions at the Environmental Defense Fund, including senior counsel and director of regulatory policy for the United States clean air program. Before that, he was an attorney at the law firm of Van Ness Feldman, LLP.15
Dimple Chaudhary is Principal Deputy General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency.16 She was formerly deputy litigation director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and before that was an associate at the law firm of WilmerHale.17
Marianne Engelman-Lado is Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, having joined the EPA as Deputy General Counsel of Environmental Initiatives. She was formerly director of the environmental justice clinic at Vermont Law School. Before that was a senior staff attorney at Earthjustice, general counsel at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and also worked at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She was co-chair of the equity and environmental justice working group on the Connecticut Governor’s Council on Climate Change.18 She has served on the boards of the Center for Public Representation,19 WE ACT for Environmental Justice,20 and the African American Policy Forum.21
Rosemary Enobakhare is Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Policy and Strategic Engagement at the Environmental Protection Agency,22 having previously been Associate Administrator for Public Engagement and Environmental Education. She formerly served as director of campaigns at The Hub Project, and as campaign director at Clean Water for All. During the Obama Administration, she was deputy associate administrator for public engagement and environmental education at the Environmental Protection Agency.23
Radhika Fox is Assistant Administrator for Water. She formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of the US Water Alliance. Before that, she directed the policy and government affairs agenda for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and served as Federal Policy Director at PolicyLink.24
Michal Freedhoff is Assistant Administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. She most recently served as Minority Director of Oversight on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee since February 2017, and has served on the staffs of the U.S. House Science Committee, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the House Natural Resources Committee. Beginning in 1996, she was a Congressional Science and Engineering fellow in the office of then-Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA).25
Lindsay Hamilton is Associate Administrator for Public Affairs at the Environmental Protection Agency. She formerly served as senior director of national media strategy at Climate Nexus. Before that, she held positions as chief spokesperson for George Washington University, and as chief of staff and a vice president at the Center for American Progress.26 She also worked as communications director for former Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), and in the office of Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE).27
Casey Katims was formerly Deputy Associate Administrator for Intergovernmental Relations. Before that he was director of federal and inter-state affairs for Governor Jay Inslee (WA), and a policy advisor for Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA). In April 2022, it was announced that Katims had been named executive director of the United States Climate Alliance.28
Janet McCabe is Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. She was formerly the director of Indiana University’s Environmental Resilience Institute and a professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at IUPUI. During the Obama Administration, she served as Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation at the EPA from July 2013 to January 2017, and was Principal Deputy in that office from 2009 to 2013. She also formerly served as air director at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.29
McCabe was confirmed in a 52-42 vote in the Senate, with some Senators expressing concern over her role in developing the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was a regulation targeting carbon emissions from power plants.30
Alejandra Nunez is Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mobile Sources in the Office of Air and Radiation. She was formerly a senior attorney in the environmental law program at the Sierra Club. Before that, she was an associate counsel at the World Bank and an associate at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster.31
Michael S. Regan is Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He had previously served as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality since 2017. Before that, he was Associate Vice President of U.S. Climate and Energy and Southeast Regional Director at the Environmental Defense Fund, and also worked at the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He has served as a board member or commissioner at the University of North Carolina School of Law Center for Climate, Energy, Environment and Economics, Green 2.0 (officially the Green Diversity Initiative), the North Carolina Commission on Global Climate Change, the North Carolina Energy Policy Council, and as an executive steering committee member of Envision Charlotte.32
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Kalpana Kotagal is a Commissioner on the EEOC, for a term that began on August 9, 2023 and expires in July 2027. She was formerly a partner at the law firm of Cohen Milstein, and has served as a board member at A Better Balance and the Public Justice Foundation, as an alumni advisory board member at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, as an advisory board member at the People’s Parity Project, and as a task force member at the American Constitution Society.33
Kotagal’s nomination was controversial, and she was confirmed by a 49-47 vote in the U.S. Senate. Criticism was focused on her opposition to mandatory arbitration in employment dispute matters, and her views on police and transgender issues.34 Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who voted against Kotagal’s nomination, was quoted as saying that it was “clear from her prior work with far-left progressive organizations, including a group that wants to ban fossil fuels, that Ms. Kotagal does not represent West Virginia values and would prioritize a partisan agenda over creating commonsense, bipartisan solutions that bring our nation forward.”35
Federal Trade Commission
Lina Khan is Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. She was most recently an associate professor at Columbia Law School. Before that, she was counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, served as legal advisor to commissioner Rohit Chopra at the Federal Trade Commission, and was legal director at the Open Markets Institute.36
Sarah Miller is special advisor to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. She was executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project from February 2020 to March 2023. She was a member of the Biden-Harris Transition, and was formerly deputy director of the Open Markets Institute. During the Obama Administration, she was a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and had multiple roles at the Center for American Progress. She helped launch the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and was deputy economic policy director for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.37 38
Miller is married to Faiz Shakir, who took over as interim executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project after Miller’s departure.39 Shakir is the founder and executive director of More Perfect Union, and chief political advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He was campaign manager for Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, and has also been a senior advisor to U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). He was also formerly the national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).40 41
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Bill Nelson is Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Nelson served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Florida from 2001 to 2019, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Florida’s 11th District from 1983 to 1991 and for Florida’s 9th District from 1979 to 1983.42 While serving as a member of the House in 1986, Nelson flew as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Columbia. His nomination was largely uncontroversial and he was confirmed by unanimous consent in the Senate.43
National Labor Relations Board
Jennifer Abruzzo is General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). She most recently served as Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives at the Communications Workers of America, and before that was Deputy General Counsel and Acting General Counsel at the NLRB during the Obama Administration.44
Gwynne Wilcox is a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), having been nominated by President Biden on May 27, 2021 and confirmed by the Senate on July 28, 2021. She was formerly a senior partner at the law firm of Levy Ratner, P.C., and served as associate general counsel of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, and as a labor representative to the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining. Before that, she was a field attorney for Region 2 of the NLRB.45 She has served as a member of the board of directors of the Peggy Browning Fund, Brandworkers, the Workers Defense League, and the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance (formerly known as the Lawyers Coordinating Committee), and as an advisory board member and former president of the New York City Labor and Employment Relations Association.46
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Bradley Crowell is a commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, having taken office on August 26, 2022 for a five-year term ending June 30, 2027. Crowell was formerly the director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, to which he was first appointed in 2016 and reappointed in 2019. During the Obama Administration, he served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. He also formerly worked as a staffer for Senators Richard Bryan (D-NV) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).47 From 2004 to 2007, Crowell was a legislative advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council.48
Office of Personnel Management
Kiran Ahuja is Director of the Office of Personnel Management. She was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Philanthropy Northwest. During the Obama Administration, she served as chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management and as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has served on the boards of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), the United Philanthropy Forum, and the Wing Luke Museum.49 From 2003 to 2008, she was the founding Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.50
Ahuja was narrowly confirmed by a 51-50 party-line vote in the U.S. Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. Republicans opposed her nomination due to her ties to critical race theory. According to Fox News, “Ahuja hosted critical race theory and anti-racism activist Ibram X. Kendi for an event with Philanthropy Northwest.”51
Caroline Ciccone is Communications Director at the Office of Personnel Management.52 She formerly served as the Executive Director of Accountable.US. Before that, she was Managing Principal at Precision Strategies from 2017-2018, and the Executive Director of Americans United for Change from 2014-2017. During the Obama Administration, she served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Communications & Public Liaison at the U.S. Small Business Administration. Earlier in her career, she was Deputy Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee, as well as Deputy Press Secretary for then-U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA).53
Ciccone’s background as Executive Director of Accountable.US attracted some controversy after her appointment to the Office of Personnel Management. The Washington Free Beacon noted that Accountable.US had co-authored “An Open Letter to America’s CEOs” in which it called on American business leaders “to make it clear that you will not hire for employment, contract for consulting, or seat on your boards any senior-level official from the Trump administration that has participated in undermining our democracy, endorsing violent extremism, or tearing families apart.”5455
David Marsh is senior advisor to the Chief of Staff at the Office of Personnel Management. He was formerly a senior manager for state and federal policy at the Markle Foundation, and also worked on criminal justice reform at the Pew Charitable Trusts. During the Obama Administration, he served from 2015 to 2017 in the Office of Management and Budget and in the Office of Personnel Management. Marsh was an organizer for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign in Colorado.56
Office of Special Counsel
Hampton Dellinger has been nominated to serve as Special Counsel. Dellinger was previously an assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy until June 2023.57 From 2013-2020 he was a partner at the law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner, from 2008-2013 he was a partner at the law firm of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, and from 2003-2007 he was a partner at the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He was also previously a deputy attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice, and chief legal counsel in office of the governor of North Carolina.58
Dellinger’s time at Boies Schiller Flexner overlapped with that of Hunter Biden, who served as counsel at the firm.59
Securities and Exchange Commission
Gary Gensler is Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He formerly served as a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. During the Obama Administration, he was Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He also formerly served as a Senior Advisor to former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) in writing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. During the Clinton Administration, he served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Gensler has also worked on several Democratic political campaigns, including serving as an economic advisor on Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, as a senior advisor on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, and as Chief Financial Officer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. From 1979-1997 he worked at Goldman Sachs. He has been a member of the New York Fed Fintech Advisory Group and Chairman of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission.60
Gensler was confirmed by a 53-45 vote in the Senate, with some Republicans voicing reservations about his approach to ESG Activism. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) expressed concern that Gensler would “cause the SEC to use its regulatory powers to advance a liberal social agenda focused on issues such as global warming, political spending disclosures, and racial inequality and diversity.”61
Satyam Khanna is Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and ESG at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).62 He formerly served as a resident fellow at New York University School of Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance, and as a member of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee. Prior to that, he was Counsel to former SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson. He has also been a fellow at Columbia Law School, an advisor at the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, an attorney at the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, and a research assistant to Evercore founder and senior chairman Roger Altman.63
Small Business Administration
Isabel Guzman is Administrator of the Small Business Administration. She most recently served as Director of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. During the Obama Administration, she was Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at the U.S. Small Business Administration. Prior to that, she was an advisor to ProAmerica Bank.64
Dilawar Syed is Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, having previously served as Special Representative for Commercial & Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. He was formerly the chief executive officer of Lumiata, and before that was president of Freshworks and an executive at Yahoo!. He was the founding chair of the California Entrepreneurship Task Force within Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Business and Economic Development. During the Obama Administration, he was a member of the White House Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Economic Growth Committee.65
Syed’s nomination was controversial, due in part to his membership on the board of Emgage Action, which has described Israel as an “apartheid” state and supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Emgage has accused Israel of perpetuating “racist, undemocratic Israeli apartheid rule that steals [Palestinian] land and destroys their homes to make way for illegal Jewish settlements.” During his confirmation process, Syed stated that he does not support the BDS movement.66
U.S. Agency for International Development
Gillian Caldwell is chief climate officer and deputy assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She formerly served as chief executive officer of the nonprofit Global Witness, and from 2007 to 2010 was the director of 1Sky, which she helped launch.67 Before that, she served as executive director of the nonprofit WITNESS. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Caldwell operated a consulting business with numerous clients including the Center for Community Change, Color of Change, Common Cause, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Open Society Foundations, the Wallace Global Fund, and Arabella Advisors.68 She has served on the board of directors of EarthRights International.69
Samantha Power is Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She was most recently a professor at Harvard Law School and at Harvard Kennedy School. During the Obama Administration, she served as the 28th U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, she served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights. Before entering government, she was the founding Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.70 Power was a foreign policy advisor on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, but resigned after referring to then-campaign rival Hillary Clinton as a “monster” during an interview.71 Power has expressed regret for the comment, and apologized publicly and to Clinton personally.72 She was a former member of the advisory council of National Security Action.73
U.S. Postal Service
Amber McReynolds is a member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.74 McReynolds is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Vote at Home Institute and the National Vote at Home Coalition. She formerly served as Director of Elections for the city of Denver, Colorado.75 She is a member of the board of directors of RepresentWomen,76 and was a panelist at Democracy Alliance’s Fall 2018 conference.77
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