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From A Survivor's Guide for Presidential  Nominees:
Appointing people to fill senior positions is one of the first major undertakings facing any new administration — and one of the most challenging. Rogelio Garcia, a specialist in American government at the Congressional Research Service who has tracked nominations for years, calculates that there are more than 1,000 leadership posts in the executive branch that require presidential nomination and Senate confirmation, including approximately:

bullet330 full-time positions in the 14 executive departments, including Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, under secretaries, assistant secretaries and general counsels
bullet120 full-time posts in independent executive agencies, such as the Small Business Administration and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
bullet150 ambassadors, two-thirds of whom customarily come from the career Foreign Service;
bullet187 U.S. attorneys and marshals;
bullet130 full-time regulatory positions, including the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission; and
bullet160 presidential appointees to part-time positions, such as the Legal Services Corporation and the Postal Service Board of Governors.
bulletDiversity / Background is indicated under "Notes".

Key People

Position Office Holder Notes
Vice President  Dick Cheney Former SecDef for Bush Snr. and Gov. of Wyoming
Chief of Staff  Andrew Card Served in Bush Snr. admin.
Presidential Advisor Karl Rove  
Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey  
Sec. Of State Colin Powell Black, Served in Regan and Bush Snr. Admins. Former Chairman of Joint Chfs.
Deputy Sec of State Richard Armitage  
Head of State Dept. Latin America Ops Otto Reich Cuban Born, Activist in Reagan's Anti-Sandinista Effort
Under  Sec. Of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman  
Sec. Of Treasury Paul O'Neill Former Pres. and CEO of Alcoa for 13 yrs.
Sec. Of Defense  Donald Rumsfeld Served in Regan and Ford Admins.
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice Hispanic, Female, Served in Bush Snr. Admin.
Counselor to President Karen Hughes Female
General Counsel  Alberto Gonzales Hispanic, Former member of Texas Supreme Court
Sec. Of Commerce  Don Evans  
Sec. Of Housing Mel Martinez Hispanic
Director of Office of Rural Development Gigi Dennis Former Rep. of West Pueblo, Colorado
Sec. Agriculture  Ann Veneman Female, Lawyer, Former Calif. Sec of Agriculture. Served in Bush Snr. Admin. 
Sec. Of Education Rod Paige Black
Sec. Of Interior Gale Norton Female, Former Colorado Att. General. Served in Regan Admin.
Sec. Of Labor Elaine Chao Asian, Female
Sec. Of Transportation Norm Mineta  
Sec. Of Energy Spencer Abraham Former Sen. of Michigan. Served in Bush Snr. Admin.
Under Sec. Of Energy Robert Card Former Pres and CEO of Kaiser-Hill Co., managing cleanup of Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant.
Sec. Of Health & Human Services Tommy Thompson Former Gov. of Wisconsin for 13 years.
Attorney General John Ashcroft Former Atty.Gen, Gov. and Senator of Missouri 
EPA Director Christi Whitman Female, Former Gov. of New Jersey
Drug Policy Director John P. Walters Former Dep. Director for supply reduction in Bush Snr. Administration
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher  
Director of White House office of Management & Budget Mitch Daniels Former Senior Vice President of Eli Lily Pharmaceuticals Company
Solicitor General Theodore Olson Served on Board of American Spectator Mag.,  Argued Supreme Court case against Affirm. Action.
FCC Chairman Michael Powell Black (son of Colin)
FEC Chairman  Alan Greenspan Served in Regan and Bush Snr. Administrations
Surgeon General David Satcher
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin
Acting Ambassador to United Nations  James Cunningham
US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick
Vet Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi Served in Bush Snr. Admin.
CIA Director  George Tenet
FBI Director Robert Mueller Former Dep. Director of FBI
FEMA Director Joe Albaugh
US Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore

Female, Former Pres. And Board Chairman of Stockton Products.

White House    Science Advisor Charles Vest
Head of Office of Personnel Management Kay Coles James Female. Former Dean of Robertson School of Government at Pat Robertson's Regent University
IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti
AIDs Czar Scott Evertz Gay Activist
Ambassador to Beijing Adm. Joseph W. Prucher
Ambassador to Vatican Jim Nicholson
Ambassador to Germany Dan Coats
Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker
Ambassador to Switzerland Mercer Reynolds Former Bush business partner
Ambassador to Italy Rockwell Schnable Calif. Investment Banker
Ambassador to France Howard Leach San Francisco Banker
Ambassador to Czech Republic Craig Stapleton
Ambassador to Morocco Margaret Tutwiler Female, former White House Aide
Ambassador to Jordan William Burns 

Awaiting confirmation as Assist. Sec. of State for Near East.

Sec. of Army Thomas E. White
Sec. of Navy Gordon England
Sec. of Air Force James Rocke
Chairman of Committee for Bioethics Dr. Leon Kass
NATO Sec General George Robertson 
Director – Homeland Security Tom Ridge Former Gov of Penna
Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers Former CINC Space Command
Dep. For Nat’l Security Gen. Wayne A. Downing Advisor to Pres. For combating terrorism.
Former CINC-US Special Ops Command
 

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