Janet Yellen (74), named by President Joe Biden to be the new administration’s Secretary of the Treasury, was easily confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Jan. 25, 2021. Previously, Yellen was a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Chair of the Federal Reserve. She is also a professor emerita at the Haas…
Dr. Rachel L. Levine is a 63-year-old pediatrician who was head of the Pennsylvania Department of Health from 2017 till early 2021. President Joe Biden has tapped her to be the Assistant Secretary of Health in his administration. Dr. Levine, who also is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of…
Antony “Tony” Blinken will be Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state in the new administration. Blinken (58) served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017, and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015. Previously, he served in the State Department and in senior positions on the National Security Council staff.…
Ronald “Ron” Klain (59) has been named White House Chief of Staff in the new Biden Administration. Klain is an attorney and longtime political consultant. He served as chief of staff for Vice President AL Gore and later Vice President Joe Biden. In addition, President Barack Obama appointed him to be the White House Ebola…
In 2014, Democrat Elizabeth “Libby” Schaaf (54) won her first term as mayor of Oakland with 62.79% of the vote. She was reelected in 2018 with 27% more votes than her opponent. Prior to entering politics, Shaaf was an attorney in Oakland – where she was born and raised – and program director for the…
Dan Gelber (60), the mayor of Miami Beach, Fla., is definitely a “chip off the ol’ block.” Pictured is Gelber being sworn in to his mayoral position by his father, 98-year-old Seymour Gelber, who once served in the same position. The younger Gelber, a Democrat, has been at loggerheads with Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis,…
Since 2017, Theodore “Ted” Deutch (54) has served as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 22nd congressional district. Deutch, a Democrat and an attorney, first became a member of the House of Representatives in 2010; he served two other Florida districts before his current position. He has been Chair of the House Ethics Committee since 2019.…
Jacklyn “Jacky” Rosen (D), 63, was elected to the U.S. Senate from Nevada in 2018. (Raised by a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, she considers herself to be Jewish.) Rosen was one of three Senators to press for the creation of a federal special envoy position to combat antisemitism. Prior to serving in the Senate,…
Ronald (Ron) Wyden (D), 71, has served as the U.S. Senator from Oregon since 1996. From 1981 to 1996 he was a member of the House of Representatives. Wyden is the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee. In May 2017, he co-sponsored — with Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, who also is Jewish — Senate…
Political activist Ezra Klein is co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, a nonprofit…
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