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Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
White House Director of Communications |
Jason Miller | December 22, 2016 [3] | December 24, 2016 [4] [5] |
Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council |
Monica Crowley |
December 15, 2016 [6] | January 16, 2017 [7] |
Chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality |
Kathleen Hartnett White [8] |
October 12, 2017 | February 5, 2018 |
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy |
Tom Marino |
September 5, 2017 | October 17, 2017 [9] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Under Secretary of Agriculture (Research, Education, and Economics) |
Sam Clovis |
July 25, 2017 | November 2, 2017 [10] [11] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Deputy Secretary of Commerce |
Todd Ricketts |
November 30, 2016 [12] | April 19, 2017 [13] |
Under Secretary of Commerce (Oceans and Atmosphere) |
Barry Lee Myers |
October 12, 2017 [14] | November 20, 2019 [15] |
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Export Enforcement) |
Jeffrey Nadaner |
February 5, 2018 [16] | June 12, 2019 [17] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Defense |
Patrick M. Shanahan |
May 9, 2019 [18] | June 18, 2019 [19] |
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs |
Dean Winslow [20] |
September 2017 | January 2018 |
General Counsel of the Air Force |
David Ehrhart |
June 23, 2017 | September 29, 2017 [21] [22] |
Secretary of the Army |
Vincent Viola |
December 19, 2016 [23] | February 3, 2017 [24] |
Mark E. Green |
April 7, 2017 [25] | May 5, 2017 [26] | |
General Counsel of the Army |
Ryan Dean Newman |
March 21, 2017 | September 29, 2017 [21] [22] |
Secretary of the Navy |
Philip Bilden |
January 25, 2017 [27] | February 26, 2017 [28] [29] |
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) |
Elaine McCusker |
November 6, 2019 | March 2, 2020 [30] |
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness |
Anthony Kurta |
July 19, 2017 | September 28, 2018 [31] |
J. David Patterson | January 6, 2020 [32] | February 12, 2020 [33] | |
Under Secretary of the Air Force |
Shon J. Manasco |
April 24, 2020 [34] | December 30, 2020 [35] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Assistant Secretary of Education (Career, Technical, and Adult Education) |
Tim Kelly [36] | 27 August 2017 | 18 November 2017 |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
General Counsel of Energy |
David Jonas | May 23, 2017 | January 3, 2018 [37] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Director of the Indian Health Service |
Robert M. Weaver | October 6, 2017 | February 21, 2018 [38] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Homeland Security |
Chad Wolf |
August 25, 2020 [39] | January 6, 2021 [40] |
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Partnership & Engagement) |
David Clarke |
May 17, 2017 [41] | June 17, 2017 [42] |
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Jeffrey Byard |
May 13, 2019 | September 19, 2019 [43] |
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Daniel Alan Craig | July 25, 2017 | September 13, 2017 [44] |
Chief Financial Officer of Homeland Security |
Charles E. Cook III | February 2, 2018 [45] | June 7, 2018 [46] |
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
Thomas Homan |
November 14, 2017 | May 15, 2018 [47] |
Ronald Vitiello |
August 6, 2018 [48] | April 4, 2019 |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Solicitor of the Interior |
Ryan D. Nelson [49] |
July 31, 2017 | May 10, 2018, and nominated instead for Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit |
Director of the Office of Surface Mining |
J. Steven Gardner [50] | January 8, 2018 | September 12, 2018 |
Director of the Bureau of Land Management |
William Perry Pendley |
June 26, 2020 [51] | September 8, 2020 [52] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Associate Attorney General |
Jessie K. Liu |
March 5, 2019 [53] | March 28, 2019 [54] |
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives |
Chuck Canterbury |
May 24, 2019 [55] | May 19, 2020 [56] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Labor |
Andrew Puzder |
December 8, 2016 [57] | February 15, 2017 [58] |
Assistant Secretary of Labor (Occupational Safety and Health) |
Scott Mugno |
November 1, 2017 [59] | May 23, 2019 [60] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Under Secretary of State (Management) |
Eric Ueland |
June 9, 2017 [61] | June 18, 2018 [62] |
Under Secretary of State (Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights) |
July 29, 2020 [63] | December 30, 2020 [35] | |
Director General of the United States Foreign Service |
Stephen Akard [64] [65] |
October 10, 2017 [66] | March 20, 2018 [67] and nominated instead for Director of the Office of Foreign Missions |
Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs) |
Susan Thornton |
December 19, 2017 [68] | August 16, 2018 [69] |
Assistant Secretary of State (South and Central Asian Affairs) |
Robert Williams | December 12, 2018 | April 11, 2019 [70] |
Ambassador to Australia |
Harry B. Harris Jr. |
February 9, 2018 | May 23, 2018 [71] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to South Korea [72] |
Ambassador to the Bahamas |
Doug Manchester | May 15, 2017 [73] | November 13, 2019 [74] |
Ambassador to Belgium |
Jamie McCourt | June 22, 2017 [75] | August 2, 2017 [76] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to France [77] |
Ambassador to Chile |
Andrew Gellert | January 4, 2018 [78] | August 16, 2018 |
Ambassador to Estonia |
Edward Masso | September 2, 2017 [79] | May 24, 2018 [80] |
Ambassador to Singapore |
K. T. McFarland [81] [82] [83] | May 19, 2017 | January 2018 [84] |
Ambassador to South Korea |
Victor Cha [85] |
December 2017 | January 2018 |
Ambassador to the United Nations |
Heather Nauert |
December 2018 | February 2019 [86] |
Representative of the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
Jennifer Barber |
December 9, 2019 [87] | September 8, 2020 [52] |
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly | |||
Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations (Special Political Affairs) |
Austin M. Smith | August 2018 [88] | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2019, replaced by nomination of Alex Wong in February 2020 [89] |
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly | |||
Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
Pamela Bates |
September 2018 [90] | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2020, replaced by nomination of Manisha Singh in April 2020 [91] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration |
Paul Trombino III [92] |
September 8, 2017 [93] | December 8, 2017 [94] |
Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
Heidi King |
April 5, 2018 | September 19, 2019 [43] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury |
Jim Donovan | March 14, 2017 [95] | May 19, 2017 [96] |
Under Secretary of the Treasury (Terrorism and Financial Crimes) |
Jessie K. Liu |
January 6, 2020 [97] | February 12, 2020 [98] |
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (International Finance) |
Adam Lerrick [99] |
March 14, 2017 | May 10, 2018 [100] |
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
James Clinger | June 16, 2017 | July 12, 2017 [101] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Ronny Jackson |
March 28, 2018 | June 20, 2018 [102] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency |
Christopher Sharpley |
September 5, 2017 | July 23, 2018 [103] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Toxic Substances |
Michael Dourson |
July 2017 | December 13, 2017 [104] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Director of National Intelligence |
John Ratcliffe |
July 28, 2019 | August 2, 2019 [105] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Director of the Office of Personnel Management |
George Nesterczuk |
May 24, 2017 [106] | August 2, 2017 [107] |
President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
Scott Garrett [108] |
Rejected by Senate Banking Committee vote | |
First Vice President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
Kimberly A. Reed |
September 15, 2017 | June 20, 2018, and nominated instead for President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Africa) |
Johnathan Miller [109] | January 12, 2018 | March 20, 2018 |
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance) |
Mark Montgomery [110] [111] |
June 20, 2018 | November 15, 2018 [112] |
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Asia) |
Mina Chang [113] |
September 13, 2018 | September 9, 2019 [114] [115] |
Member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service |
Calvin R. Tucker |
October 26, 2017 [116] | March 5, 2019 [117] |
Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board |
Andrew Maunz [118] |
March 5, 2018 [119] | February 12, 2019 [120] |
Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission |
Ann Marie Buerkle [121] |
July 24, 2017 | June 18, 2019 [122] |
Inspector General of the Tennessee Valley Authority |
Katherine A. Crytzer |
April 3, 2020 [123] | September 22, 2020, and nominated instead for District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee [124] |
Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|
Damien Schiff |
May 8, 2017 | January 3, 2018 |
Thomas Alvin Farr |
July 13, 2017 | January 3, 2019 |
Ryan Bounds |
September 7, 2017 | July 2018 |
Jeff Mateer | December 2017 | |
Matthew S. Petersen |
December 16, 2017 | |
Brett Talley |
December 13, 2017 | |
Gordon P. Giampietro | December 20, 2017 | January 3, 2019 |
Maureen Ohlhausen |
January 23, 2018 | December 2018 |
Jon Katchen | April 10, 2018 | August 2018 |
John M. O'Connor |
April 12, 2019 | |
Thomas Marcelle | November 13, 2018 | September 19, 2019 |
Michael S. Bogren |
March 11, 2019 | June 26, 2019 |
Kevin R. Sweazea | June 12, 2019 | January 3, 2020 |
Halil Suleyman Ozerden |
June 24, 2019 | |
Daniel Z. Epstein | June 19, 2019 [125] | December 17, 2020, and nominated instead for Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States [126] |
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The Trump administration proposed a number of nominees to appointed positions who were rejected by the Senate or withdrew voluntarily. [1] [2]
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
White House Director of Communications |
Jason Miller | December 22, 2016 [3] | December 24, 2016 [4] [5] |
Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council |
Monica Crowley |
December 15, 2016 [6] | January 16, 2017 [7] |
Chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality |
Kathleen Hartnett White [8] |
October 12, 2017 | February 5, 2018 |
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy |
Tom Marino |
September 5, 2017 | October 17, 2017 [9] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Under Secretary of Agriculture (Research, Education, and Economics) |
Sam Clovis |
July 25, 2017 | November 2, 2017 [10] [11] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Deputy Secretary of Commerce |
Todd Ricketts |
November 30, 2016 [12] | April 19, 2017 [13] |
Under Secretary of Commerce (Oceans and Atmosphere) |
Barry Lee Myers |
October 12, 2017 [14] | November 20, 2019 [15] |
Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Export Enforcement) |
Jeffrey Nadaner |
February 5, 2018 [16] | June 12, 2019 [17] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Defense |
Patrick M. Shanahan |
May 9, 2019 [18] | June 18, 2019 [19] |
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs |
Dean Winslow [20] |
September 2017 | January 2018 |
General Counsel of the Air Force |
David Ehrhart |
June 23, 2017 | September 29, 2017 [21] [22] |
Secretary of the Army |
Vincent Viola |
December 19, 2016 [23] | February 3, 2017 [24] |
Mark E. Green |
April 7, 2017 [25] | May 5, 2017 [26] | |
General Counsel of the Army |
Ryan Dean Newman |
March 21, 2017 | September 29, 2017 [21] [22] |
Secretary of the Navy |
Philip Bilden |
January 25, 2017 [27] | February 26, 2017 [28] [29] |
Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) |
Elaine McCusker |
November 6, 2019 | March 2, 2020 [30] |
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness |
Anthony Kurta |
July 19, 2017 | September 28, 2018 [31] |
J. David Patterson | January 6, 2020 [32] | February 12, 2020 [33] | |
Under Secretary of the Air Force |
Shon J. Manasco |
April 24, 2020 [34] | December 30, 2020 [35] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Assistant Secretary of Education (Career, Technical, and Adult Education) |
Tim Kelly [36] | 27 August 2017 | 18 November 2017 |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
General Counsel of Energy |
David Jonas | May 23, 2017 | January 3, 2018 [37] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Director of the Indian Health Service |
Robert M. Weaver | October 6, 2017 | February 21, 2018 [38] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Homeland Security |
Chad Wolf |
August 25, 2020 [39] | January 6, 2021 [40] |
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Partnership & Engagement) |
David Clarke |
May 17, 2017 [41] | June 17, 2017 [42] |
Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Jeffrey Byard |
May 13, 2019 | September 19, 2019 [43] |
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency |
Daniel Alan Craig | July 25, 2017 | September 13, 2017 [44] |
Chief Financial Officer of Homeland Security |
Charles E. Cook III | February 2, 2018 [45] | June 7, 2018 [46] |
Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |
Thomas Homan |
November 14, 2017 | May 15, 2018 [47] |
Ronald Vitiello |
August 6, 2018 [48] | April 4, 2019 |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Solicitor of the Interior |
Ryan D. Nelson [49] |
July 31, 2017 | May 10, 2018, and nominated instead for Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit |
Director of the Office of Surface Mining |
J. Steven Gardner [50] | January 8, 2018 | September 12, 2018 |
Director of the Bureau of Land Management |
William Perry Pendley |
June 26, 2020 [51] | September 8, 2020 [52] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Associate Attorney General |
Jessie K. Liu |
March 5, 2019 [53] | March 28, 2019 [54] |
Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives |
Chuck Canterbury |
May 24, 2019 [55] | May 19, 2020 [56] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Labor |
Andrew Puzder |
December 8, 2016 [57] | February 15, 2017 [58] |
Assistant Secretary of Labor (Occupational Safety and Health) |
Scott Mugno |
November 1, 2017 [59] | May 23, 2019 [60] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Under Secretary of State (Management) |
Eric Ueland |
June 9, 2017 [61] | June 18, 2018 [62] |
Under Secretary of State (Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights) |
July 29, 2020 [63] | December 30, 2020 [35] | |
Director General of the United States Foreign Service |
Stephen Akard [64] [65] |
October 10, 2017 [66] | March 20, 2018 [67] and nominated instead for Director of the Office of Foreign Missions |
Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs) |
Susan Thornton |
December 19, 2017 [68] | August 16, 2018 [69] |
Assistant Secretary of State (South and Central Asian Affairs) |
Robert Williams | December 12, 2018 | April 11, 2019 [70] |
Ambassador to Australia |
Harry B. Harris Jr. |
February 9, 2018 | May 23, 2018 [71] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to South Korea [72] |
Ambassador to the Bahamas |
Doug Manchester | May 15, 2017 [73] | November 13, 2019 [74] |
Ambassador to Belgium |
Jamie McCourt | June 22, 2017 [75] | August 2, 2017 [76] and nominated instead for United States Ambassador to France [77] |
Ambassador to Chile |
Andrew Gellert | January 4, 2018 [78] | August 16, 2018 |
Ambassador to Estonia |
Edward Masso | September 2, 2017 [79] | May 24, 2018 [80] |
Ambassador to Singapore |
K. T. McFarland [81] [82] [83] | May 19, 2017 | January 2018 [84] |
Ambassador to South Korea |
Victor Cha [85] |
December 2017 | January 2018 |
Ambassador to the United Nations |
Heather Nauert |
December 2018 | February 2019 [86] |
Representative of the United States on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
Jennifer Barber |
December 9, 2019 [87] | September 8, 2020 [52] |
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly | |||
Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nations (Special Political Affairs) |
Austin M. Smith | August 2018 [88] | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2019, replaced by nomination of Alex Wong in February 2020 [89] |
Alternate Representative to the United Nations General Assembly | |||
Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
Pamela Bates |
September 2018 [90] | Returned to President Trump by Senate in January 2020, replaced by nomination of Manisha Singh in April 2020 [91] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration |
Paul Trombino III [92] |
September 8, 2017 [93] | December 8, 2017 [94] |
Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
Heidi King |
April 5, 2018 | September 19, 2019 [43] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury |
Jim Donovan | March 14, 2017 [95] | May 19, 2017 [96] |
Under Secretary of the Treasury (Terrorism and Financial Crimes) |
Jessie K. Liu |
January 6, 2020 [97] | February 12, 2020 [98] |
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (International Finance) |
Adam Lerrick [99] |
March 14, 2017 | May 10, 2018 [100] |
Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
James Clinger | June 16, 2017 | July 12, 2017 [101] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Ronny Jackson |
March 28, 2018 | June 20, 2018 [102] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency |
Christopher Sharpley |
September 5, 2017 | July 23, 2018 [103] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Toxic Substances |
Michael Dourson |
July 2017 | December 13, 2017 [104] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Director of National Intelligence |
John Ratcliffe |
July 28, 2019 | August 2, 2019 [105] |
Office | Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|---|
Director of the Office of Personnel Management |
George Nesterczuk |
May 24, 2017 [106] | August 2, 2017 [107] |
President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
Scott Garrett [108] |
Rejected by Senate Banking Committee vote | |
First Vice President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
Kimberly A. Reed |
September 15, 2017 | June 20, 2018, and nominated instead for President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States |
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Africa) |
Johnathan Miller [109] | January 12, 2018 | March 20, 2018 |
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance) |
Mark Montgomery [110] [111] |
June 20, 2018 | November 15, 2018 [112] |
Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Asia) |
Mina Chang [113] |
September 13, 2018 | September 9, 2019 [114] [115] |
Member of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service |
Calvin R. Tucker |
October 26, 2017 [116] | March 5, 2019 [117] |
Member of the Merit Systems Protection Board |
Andrew Maunz [118] |
March 5, 2018 [119] | February 12, 2019 [120] |
Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission |
Ann Marie Buerkle [121] |
July 24, 2017 | June 18, 2019 [122] |
Inspector General of the Tennessee Valley Authority |
Katherine A. Crytzer |
April 3, 2020 [123] | September 22, 2020, and nominated instead for District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee [124] |
Nominee | Announced | Withdrawn |
---|---|---|
Damien Schiff |
May 8, 2017 | January 3, 2018 |
Thomas Alvin Farr |
July 13, 2017 | January 3, 2019 |
Ryan Bounds |
September 7, 2017 | July 2018 |
Jeff Mateer | December 2017 | |
Matthew S. Petersen |
December 16, 2017 | |
Brett Talley |
December 13, 2017 | |
Gordon P. Giampietro | December 20, 2017 | January 3, 2019 |
Maureen Ohlhausen |
January 23, 2018 | December 2018 |
Jon Katchen | April 10, 2018 | August 2018 |
John M. O'Connor |
April 12, 2019 | |
Thomas Marcelle | November 13, 2018 | September 19, 2019 |
Michael S. Bogren |
March 11, 2019 | June 26, 2019 |
Kevin R. Sweazea | June 12, 2019 | January 3, 2020 |
Halil Suleyman Ozerden |
June 24, 2019 | |
Daniel Z. Epstein | June 19, 2019 [125] | December 17, 2020, and nominated instead for Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States [126] |