Roberta Achtenberg is an American attorney and civil rights advocate who served as a commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was previously assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,becoming the first openly lesbian or gay public official in the United States whose appointment to a federal position was confirmed by the United States Senate. This confirmation hearing garnered a lot of publicity,opposition,and support.
Goli Ameri is an Iranian American businesswoman and former U.S. diplomat. She is the co-founder of a mobile technology platform called StartItUp,which provides resources to aspiring entrepreneurs. She is the former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is also the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. She ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2004,and is a former U.S. Representative to the United Nations. She serves on the board of trustees of the international NGO Freedom House,as well as on the Center for Middle East Public Policy advisory board of the RAND Corporation,a group of public and private sector leaders that provide guidance and support for RAND's Middle East research.
Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States,including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of career ambassador.
Ada Deer is a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and a Native American advocate,scholar and civil servant. As an activist she opposed the federal termination of tribes from the 1950s following the bills led by Arthur Vivian Watkins,a Republican senator. During the Clinton Administration,Deer served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.
Evelyn May Lieberman was an American public affairs professional who,during the Clinton administration,became the first woman to serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff,and was the first United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
Lael Brainard is an American economist serving as the 14th director of the National Economic Council since February 21,2023. She previously served as the 22nd vice chair of the Federal Reserve between May 2022 and February 2023. Prior to her term as vice chair,Brainard served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,taking office in 2014. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve,she served as the under secretary of the treasury for international affairs from 2010 to 2013.
Alicia Haydock Munnell is an American economist who is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Educated at Wellesley College,Boston University,and Harvard University,Munnell spent 20 years as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,where she researched wealth,savings,and retirement among American workers. She served in the Bill Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. Since 1997 she has been a professor at Boston College and director of its Center for Retirement Research,where she writes on retirement income policy.
Farah Pandith is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The position was made specifically for her after she briefed Secretary Clinton about her work in the Bush Administration. She had the rare distinction of being a political appointee for two Republican presidents and President Obama. When she was the Special Representative she traveled to almost 100 countries. After serving under both Secretaries Clinton and John Kerry,she left government. She said she came to Washington after 9/11 again and wanted to serve –she left after more than a decade in public service. She worked at USAID and then went to the National Security Council and then the U.S. Department of State. When she left in 2014,she returned to her home state of Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is an American diplomat,attorney,political activist and philanthropist who is the United States ambassador to Brazil in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Portugal from 1994 to 1997.
Stanley Owen Roth is an American foreign policy advisor who served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1997 to 2001.
Roy Richard Rubottom Jr. was an American diplomat,most notable for being Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1957 to 1960,a post in which he played a major role in engineering the United States' response to the Cuban Revolution.
William Banks Bader was an American diplomat who served as the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs from 1999 to 2001.
Evan Maureen Ryan is an American public servant serving as White House cabinet secretary in the administration of Joe Biden. She previously served as assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs (ECA) in the Obama administration (2013–2017) and was assistant for intergovernmental affairs and public liaison for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Maureen Elizabeth Cormack is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2015 to 2019. She served as acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from August to September 2021.
Carol Zelis Perez is a career Foreign Service Officer,who previously served as the Director General of the Foreign Service. Perez served as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile from October 2016 to January 2019.
Andrea Lee Thompson is an American government official and former military officer. She is the former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs. Prior to this,she was the National Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence. Before entering government service,she was a career intelligence officer in the United States Army.
Judith Ann Miller is an American attorney and government official who served as General Counsel of the United States Department of Defense from 1994 to 1999,and in the private sector as general counsel for Bechtel Group.
Carmen G. Cantor is an American diplomat who is serving as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs. She previously served as the United States ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia.
Donald Michael Remy is an American attorney,former military officer,and athletic administrator who served in the Biden administration as the 9th United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs between 2021 and 2023.
Lee Satterfield is an American diplomat who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Biden administration since November 2021.
