This page is reserved for announcements of official nominations by the Obama-Biden Transition Project. The nominations below not flagged with an asterisk require Senate confirmation.


The Cabinet
Attorney General: Eric Holder (12/1/08)
Secretary of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack (12/17/08)
Secretary of Commerce:
*Secretary of Defense: Robert M. Gates (12/1/08)
Secretary of Education: Arne Duncan (12/16/08)
Secretary of Energy: Steven Chu (12/15/08)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Tom Daschle (12/11/08)
Secretary of Homeland Security: Janet Napolitano (12/1/08)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Shaun Donovan (12/13/08)
Secretary of the Interior: Ken Salazar (12/17/08)
Secretary of Labor: Hilda Solis (12/19/08)
Secretary of State: Hillary Rodham Clinton (12/1/08)
Secretary of Transportation: Ray LaHood (12/19/08)
Secretary of the Treasury: Timothy F. Geithner (11/24/08)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Gen. Eric Shinseki (12/7/08)
*Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the President: Rahm Emanuel (11/6/08)
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Lisa Jackson    (12/15/08)
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President: Peter Orszag (11/25/08)
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the    President
United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President: Ron    Kirk (12/19/08)

Other Positions
Chief Performance Officer; Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President: Nancy Killefer    (1/7/09)
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: Leon Panetta    (1/9/09)
Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Gary Gensler    (12/18/08)
Director of the Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the    President: Christina D. Romer (11/24/08)
Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the    President: Nancy Sutley (12/15/08)
Director of National Intelligence: Adm. Dennis Blair    (1/9/09)
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Daniel Tarullo (12/18/08)
Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Jane    Lubchenco (12/20/08)
Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mary Schapiro    (12/18/08)
Administrator of the Small Business Administration: Karen G. Mills (12/19/08)
Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations: Susan Rice (12/1/08)
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,
   Executive Office of the President: John Holdren (12/20/08)