President of the U.S.Barrack Obama

*Born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii

*Attended Columbia University then Harvard Law

*Taught at University of Chicago Law School

*2004 Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat, representing

Illinois.

*2008 Ran for president vs. McCain

*January 20, 2009 became the 44th president of the Unites States and the first

African-American ever elected to that position.

Vice President of the U.S.Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.*Born November 20, 1942, in Scanton, Pennsylvania

*Attended Archmere Academy in Claymont, DE, catholic

prep school. Received Bachelor’s Degree from University

of DE in 1965 and a law degree from Syracuse University

in NY in 1968.

*Trial attorney at a law firm in Wilmington,DE serving as a

public defender. He turned to politics, serving on the New

Castle county council from 1970- 1972.

*Elected U.S. Senator, representing Delaware. 5th

youngest senator in office. Delaware's longest serving

senator.

*Biden played a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy

*January 20, 2009 elected Vice President of U.S.

Department of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

*Born October 26, 1947, Park Ridge, Illinois*Undergraduate at Wellesley College;1969 entered Yale Law School where she met Bill Clinton. *Joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the Rose Law Firm in 1976.*1978 appointed Board of the Legal Services Corporation *1992 U.S. First Lady for 8 years*2000 first lady senate of New York.*2009 President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of State.

Department of the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner

*Born August 18, 1961, in New York

*Graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1983 with degrees in government and Asian studies. Received a master's in international economics and East Asian studies in 1985 from Johns Hopkins.

*Joined the Treasury Department as a career staff official in 1988

*He was named President and CEO of the New York Federal Reserve on November 20, 2003

* 2009 President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Treasury

Department of DefenseSecretary Robert M. Gates

*September 25, 1943 in Wichita, KS

*Attended Indiana University

*C.I.A hired Robert in 1966.

*He was an assistant to President George H.W. Bush and Deputy National Security Adviser from 1989-91.

*1999-2002 he was Dean at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

*He became President of the Texas A&M in 2002

*November 2006 Gates was nominated to that position by President George W. Bush.

Department of JusticeAttorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.

*Born Jan. 21, 1951, Bronx, NY

*Graduated from Columbia University and Columbia Law School.

*Worked for 12 years with the Justice Department's Public Integrity section

*He served as a judge on the District of Columbia Superior Court, a post to which he was nominated by President Ronald

*He was appointed a United States attorney and then deputy attorney general by President Clinton.

*January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Justice

Department of the InteriorSecretary Kenneth L. Salazar

*Born March 2, 1955, Alamosa, Colorado

*Colorado College, a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1977

*Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan's law school in 1981

*1990 Romer appointed him to his cabinet as Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources

*1998 elected state attorney general; reelected in 2002.

*2004, declared his candidacy the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell.

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of the Interior.

Department of AgricultureSecretary Thomas J. Vilsack

*Born December 12, 1950, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

*1972 received a bachelor's degree from Hamilton College. In1975 received a law degree from Albany Law School

*1987 elected mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

*1992 elected Iowa Senate.

*1998 Iowa's first Democratic governor in more than 30 years, reelected 2nd term in 2002

*Created the Iowa Values Fund, an $800 million, 10-year program.

*January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Agriculture

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Secretary Shaun L.S. Donovan

*Donovan earned undergraduate and post graduate degrees from Harvard.

*Positions at FHA and HUD in the Clinton administration prior to his current post as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation.

*2004 appointed commissioner of New York City's HPD

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Department of CommerceGary Faye Locke

*Born on January 21, 1950 in Seattle.

*Graduated Yale in 1972; Graduated from Boston University with a law degree in 1975.

*1976-1980 Washington deputy prosecutor.

*1982-1993 Washington state legislator

*1994-1997 King County executive

*1997-2005 Washington Governor

*2005-present Davis Wright Tremaine Law firm

* February 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Commerce.

Department of LaborSecretary Hilda Solis

*Born on October 20, 1957, Los Angeles, California.

*1979 graduated from California State Polytechnic University; She then earned a Master of Public Administration degree at the University of Southern California in 1981.

*Elected to Congress in 2000 and represents a largely Hispanic and Asian district of working-class suburbs east of Los Angeles as well as part of East Los Angeles. She was a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the House Committee on Natural Resources and the new House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

*Solis has championed a bill, called the Employee Free Choice Act, that is the No. 1 priority of organized labor because it would make it far easier to unionize workers.

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Labor.

Department of TransportationSecretary Raymond L. LaHood

*Born on December 6, 1945 Peoria, Illinois.

*Graduated from Bradley University, earned a degree in education and was a school teacher before started politics.

*Member of the Illinois House of Representatives for one term between 1982 and 1983

*Member of the Republican Main Street Partnership.

*14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th District of Illinois (from 1995-2009). 

*January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Transportation.

Department of EnergySecretary Steven Chu

*Born on February 28, 1948, St. Louis, Missouri

*He received his bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the University of Rochester, and his doctorate degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1976.

*He became a professor of physics at Stanford University in 1987.

*2004, Chu was appointed as the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

*Chu is a co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 for the "development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.”

*Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Academia Sinica.

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Energy.

Department of EducationSecretary Arne Duncan

*Born November 6, 1964, Chicago, Illinois

*He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in sociology in 1987.

*1992, became director of the Ariel Education Initiative

*1998 he joined the Chicago Public Schools

*1999 Deputy Chief of Staff

*Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed Duncan to serve as CEO of Chicago Public Schools on June 26, 2001.

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Education.

Department of Veterans AffairsSecretary Eric Shinseki

*Born on November 28, 1942, Lihue, Hawaii

*graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science degree and a commission as a second lieutenant. He earned a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Duke University. He was also educated at the Armor Officer Advanced Course, the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the National War College.

*March 1994 to July 1995, Shinseki commanded the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas

*July 1996, he was promoted to lieutenant general and became Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, United States Army

*the Army's 28th Vice Chief of Staff on 24 November 1998

*34th Chief of Staff on June 22,1999.

*Retired June 11 2003 at the end of his four-year term. His Farewell Memo contained some of his ideas regarding the future of the military.

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department Veteran Affairs.

Department of Homeland SecuritySecretary Janet Napolitano

*Born on November 29,1957, New York City, NY.

*Graduated from Santa Clara University; She received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law.

*In 1993, Napolitano was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.

*1998 became Arizona Attorney General.

*2002 Arizona's 3rd female governor. January *2006, she won the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service.

*She served as NGA Chair from 2006 to 2007.

* January 2009, President Barack Obama's nominee of Department of Homeland Security.

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