State Department
Obama Appointees
| Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Position: Secretary
Confirmed: Jan. 21, 2009 |
| William Burns |
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Position: Deputy Secretary
Confirmed: July 27, 2011 |
| Thomas R. Nides |
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Position: Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
Confirmed: Dec. 22, 2010 |
| Robert D. Hormats |
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Position: Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
Confirmed: Sept. 22, 2009 |
| Ellen O. Tauscher |
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Position: Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
Confirmed: June 25, 2009 |
| Pat Kennedy |
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Position: Under Secretary for Management
Confirmed: Nov. 6, 2007 |
| Wendy R. Sherman |
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Position: Under Secretary for Political Affairs
Nominated: June 28, 2011 |
| Susan E. Rice |
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Position: U.S. Representative to the United Nations
Confirmed: Jan. 22, 2009 |
| Eric Goosby |
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Position: Ambassador at-large and global AIDS coordinator
Confirmed: June 19, 2009 |
| Capricia Marshall |
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Position: Chief of Protocol
Confirmed: July 31, 2009 |
| Daniel Benjamin |
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Position: Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism
Confirmed: May 21, 2009 |
| Stephen J. Rapp |
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Position: Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes
Confirmed: Aug. 4, 2009 |
| Philip S. Goldberg |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research
Confirmed: Feb. 9, 2010 |
| David S. Adams |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
Nominated: May 19, 2011 |
| Harold Hongju Koh |
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Position: Legal Adviser
Confirmed: June 25, 2009 |
| Thomas M. Countryman |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation
Nominated: Feb. 17, 2011 |
| Rose Gottemoeller |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance
Confirmed: April 3, 2009 |
| Maria Otero |
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Position: Under Secretary for Global Affairs
Confirmed: Aug. 7, 2009 |
| Jose W. Fernandez |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs
Confirmed: Nov. 20, 2009 |
| Michael H. Posner |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Democracy Human Rights and Labor
Confirmed: Sept. 22, 2009 |
| Melanne Verveer |
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Position: Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Confirmed: April 3, 2009 |
| William R. Brownfield |
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Position: Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Confirmed: Dec. 22, 2010 |
| David T, Johnson |
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Position: Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Confirmed: Oct. 26, 2007 |
| Kerri-Ann Jones |
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Position: Assistant Secretary, Oceans, International Environment and Science Affairs
Confirmed: Aug. 7, 2009 |
| Eric Schwartz |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration
Confirmed: June 19, 2009 |
| Joyce A. Barr |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Administration
Nominated: May 23, 2011 |
| Eric Boswell |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security
Confirmed: June 27, 2008 |
| Johnnie Carson |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs
Confirmed: May 6, 2009 |
| Kurt Campbell |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Confirmed: June 25, 2009 |
| Philip Gordon |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
Confirmed: May 14, 2009 |
| Esther Brimmer |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for International Organizational Affairs
Confirmed: April 3, 2009 |
| Jeffrey Feltman |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs
Confirmed: Aug. 7, 2009 |
| Robert O. Blake |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for South Central Asian Affairs
Confirmed: May 21, 2009 |
| Arturo Valenzuela |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Confirmed: Nov. 5, 2009 |
| Michael A. Hammer |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Announced: July 8, 2011 |
| Ann Stock |
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Position: Assistant Secretary of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Confirmed: June 22, 2010 |
| Luis C. de Baca |
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Position: Ambassador-At-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Confirmed: May 6, 2009 |
| Andrew J. Shapiro |
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Position: Assistant Secretary of Political-Military Affairs
Confirmed: June 19, 2009 |
| Nancy J. Powell |
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Position: Director General of the Foreign Service Director of Human Resources
Confirmed: July 31, 2009 |
| Robert King |
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Position: Special Envoy on North Korea Human Rights
Confirmed: Nov. 20, 2009 |
| Ivo H. Daalder |
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Position: Permanent Representative of the United States on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Confirmed: May 6, 2009 |
| Bonnie Jenkins |
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Position: Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs
Confirmed: June 19, 2009 |
Resigned
| William Burns |
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Position: Under Secretary for Political Affairs
Resigned: July 27, 2011 |
| Judith A. McHale |
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Position: Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Resigned: July 8, 2011 |
| James B. Steinberg |
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Position: Deputy Secretary
Resigned: March 30, 2011 |
| P.J. Crowley |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
Resigned: March 13, 2011 |
| Richard Verma |
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Position: Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
Resigned: March 4, 2011 |
| Jacob Lew |
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Position: Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
Resigned: Nov. 18, 2010 |
No Action Taken
- Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
- Inspector General
- Assistant Secretary for Resource Management
- Chief Financial Officer
- Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs
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