This year, Harvard Law School alumni continued to make an impact in a variety of ways. Most notably, HLS alumni have filled the halls of the U.S. government since Barack Obama’s ’91 election as the 44th President of the United States in November 2008. In putting together his administration, Obama selected more than 70 HLS alumni and faculty who will assist him in crafting law and policy in areas as diverse as the economy, the environment, and the military.
Those named to top-level jobs in the Obama administration include:
Faculty
David Barron ’94 Principal deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice
Jody L. Freeman LL.M. ’91 S.J.D. ’95 Counselor for energy and climate change, White House Office of Energy and Climate Change
Elena Kagan ’86 Solicitor general of the United States
Daniel J. Meltzer ’75 Principal deputy counsel to the president, Office of the White House Counsel
Dean Martha Minow Member of the board of advisors, Legal Services Corporation
Cass R. Sunstein ’78 Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
Laurence Tribe ’66 President’s Commission on White House Fellows
Alumni
Preeta Bansal ’89 General counsel and senior policy adviser, Office of Management and Budget
Jeremy B. Bash ’98 Chief of staff for CIA Director Leon Panetta
Jacqueline A. Berrien ’86 Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Charles Blanchard ’85 General counsel, Department of the U.S. Air Force
Jason E. Bordoff ’04 Associate director for climate change at the Council on Environmental Quality
William Burke-White ’02 Office of Foreign Policy Planning, State Department
Cassandra Q. Butts ’91 Senior Advisor in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle ’83 Director, White House Office for Health Reform
Norman L. Eisen ’91 Special counsel for ethics and government reform, Office of the White House Counsel
Chai R. Feldblum ’85 Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Michael Froman ’91 Deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs
Jocelyn Frye ‘88 Deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and director of policy and projects for the first lady
Juan Garcia ’92 Assistant secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, in the Department of Defense
Julius Genachowski ’91 Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
Ian H. Gershengorn ’93 Deputy assistant attorney general, Department of Justice
Daniel Gordon ’86 Administrator, Office of Federal Policy Procurement
Joshua Gotbaum ’78 head of U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Michael J. Gottlieb ’03 Associate counsel, Office of the White House Counsel
Danielle C. Gray ’03 Associate counsel, Office of the White House Counsel
William Gunn ’86 General counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale ’91 Deputy general counsel of the Department of Commerce’s Office of General Counsel
Scott Blake Harris ’76 General counsel, Department of Energy
Emily Hewitt ’78 Chief judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Ketanji Jackson ’96 Member, U.S. Sentencing Commission
Tim Kaine ’83 Chairman, Democratic National Committee
Helen Kanovsky ’76 General counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Juliette Kayyem ’95 Assistant secretary for intergovernmental programs, Department of Homeland Security
Ron Klain ’87 Chief of staff to the Vice President
Harold Hongju Koh ’80 Legal adviser, Department of State
David Kris ’91 Assistant attorney general, head of National Security Division, Department of Justice
Marisa Lago ’82 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development
Michael E. Leiter ’00 Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Stuart A. Levey ’89 Undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence
John Levi ’72 LL.M. ’73 Board member, Legal Services Corporation
Wilma Lewis ’81 Assistant secretary for Land and Mineral Management at the Department of the Interior
Chris Lu ’91 White House Cabinet secretary
Bruce E. MacDonald LL.M. ’92 Overseer of military commissions
Robert Malley ’90 Envoy to Egypt and Syria
Raymond Mabus ’76 Secretary, U.S. Navy
Demetrios Marantis ’93 Deputy U.S. trade representative
Tim Massad ’84 Chief counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program
Andrew McLaughlin ’94 Deputy chief technology officer for the Obama Administration
George Munoz ’77 President’s Commission on White House Fellows
Quentin Palfrey ’02 Associate general counsel of the Department of Commerce’s Office of General Counsel
Tom Perez ’87 Assistant attorney general, head of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Thomas Perrelli ’91 Associate attorney general, Department of Justice
Samantha Power ’99 Senior director for multilateral affairs, National Security Council
Stephen Preston ’83 General counsel Central Intelligence Agency
Blake Roberts ’06 Deputy associate counsel to the president, Office of the White House Counsel
Paul L. Oostburg Sanz ’99 General Counsel of the Navy
Edith Ramirez ’92 Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
Paul Sarbanes ’60 President’s Commission on White House Fellows
Anne-Marie Slaughter ’85 Director of policy planning, State Department
Larry Strickling ’76 Assistant secretary for Communications and Information, Department of Commerce
Todd D. Stern ’77 Special envoy for climate change
Willard Tom ’79 General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission
Gloria Valencia-Weber ’86 Board member, Legal Services Corporation
Robert Verchick ’89 Deputy associate administrator, Environmental Protection Agency Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation
Solomon B. Watson IV ’76 General Counsel of the Army
Barry White ’67 Ambassador, Norway