Head Count: Tracking Obama's Appointments

Who's Who
Ron Kirk: Confirmed, United States Trade Representative, Office of the United States Trade Representative

State Department

Obama Appointees

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Position: Secretary
Confirmed: Jan. 21, 2009
James B. Steinberg
Position: Deputy Secretary
Confirmed: Jan. 28, 2009
Jacob Lew
Position: Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
Confirmed: Jan. 28, 2009
Robert D. Hormats
Position: Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
Confirmed: Sept. 22, 2009
Ellen O. Tauscher
Position: Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
Confirmed: June 25, 2009
Pat Kennedy
Position: Under Secretary for Management
Confirmed: Nov. 6, 2007
Judith A. McHale
Position: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Confirmed: May 21, 2009
William Burns
Position: Under Secretary for Political Affairs
Confirmed: May 8, 2008
Susan E. Rice
Position: U.S. Representative to the United Nations
Confirmed: Jan. 22, 2009
Eric Goosby
Position: Ambassador at-large and global AIDS coordinator
Confirmed: June 19, 2009
Capricia Marshall
Position: Chief of Protocol
Confirmed: July 31, 2009
Daniel Benjamin
Position: Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism
Confirmed: May 21, 2009
Stephen J. Rapp
Position: Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes
Confirmed: Aug. 4, 2009
Philip S. Goldberg
Position: Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research
Nominated: Oct. 26, 2009
Richard Verma
Position: Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
Confirmed: April 3, 2009
Harold Hongju Koh
Position: Legal Adviser
Confirmed: June 25, 2009
Rose Gottemoeller
Position: Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance
Confirmed: April 3, 2009
Maria Otero
Position: Under Secretary for Global Affairs
Confirmed: Aug. 7, 2009
Jose W. Fernandez
Position: Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs
Confirmed: Nov. 20, 2009
Michael H. Posner
Position: Assistant Secretary for Democracy Human Rights and Labor
Confirmed: Sept. 22, 2009
Melanne Verveer
Position: Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Confirmed: April 3, 2009
Kerri-Ann Jones
Position: Assistant Secretary, Oceans, International Environment and Science Affairs
Confirmed: Aug. 7, 2009
Eric Schwartz
Position: Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration
Confirmed: June 19, 2009
Johnnie Carson
Position: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
Confirmed: May 6, 2009
Kurt Campbell
Position: Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Confirmed: June 25, 2009
Philip Gordon
Position: Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Confirmed: May 14, 2009
Esther Brimmer
Position: Assistant Secretary for International Organizational Affairs
Confirmed: April 3, 2009
Jeffrey Feltman
Position: Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs
Confirmed: Aug. 7, 2009
Robert O. Blake
Position: Assistant Secretary for South Central Asian Affairs
Nominated: April 27, 2009
Arturo Valenzuela
Position: Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Confirmed: Nov. 5, 2009
P.J. Crowley
Position: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Confirmed: May 21, 2009
Luis C. de Baca
Position: Ambassador-At-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Confirmed: May 6, 2009
Andrew J. Shapiro
Position: Assistant Secretary of Political-Military Affairs
Confirmed: June 19, 2009
Robert King
Position: Special Envoy on North Korea Human Rights
Confirmed: Nov. 20, 2009
Ivo H. Daalder
Position: Permanent Representative of the United States on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Confirmed: May 6, 2009
Bonnie Jenkins
Position: Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs
Confirmed: June 19, 2009

Choices at a Glance

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  • Assistant Secretary for Resource Management
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation
  • Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom
  • Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary for Administration
  • Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security
  • Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs
  • Assistant Secretary of Educational and Cultural Affairs
  • Director General of the Foreign Service Director of Human Resources
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