Other Administration Appointees: F–J

James P. Danly
Former Commissioner and Chairman at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Danly served as commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory. Before then, Danly served as general counsel to FERC and as a member of the energy regulation and litigation group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP.

Ryan Riedel
Former security engineer at SpaceX

Riedel worked as a lead network security engineer at SpaceX from 2020 to 2025. Before his time at SpaceX, he served as US Army cyber command and in the US Navy as an IT specialist.

Tina Pierce
Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense

Pierce served as the deputy chief financial officer of the Department of Defense after a year as the deputy assistant secretary for Financial Operations at the Air Force and her time as associate deputy assistant secretary for Financial Operations at the Air Force. Prior to that, she was chief of Financial Reporting and Compliance for the Defense Health Agency.

Conner Prochaska
Former Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy

Prochaska served as chief commercialization officer for the Department of Energy and as director of the Office of Technology Transitions. Before that, Prochaska worked at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and at a public investment fund. Prochaska also served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, obtaining the rank of lieutenant.

Brandon Williams
Former New York Congressman (R-22) |Former US Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer and Strategic Missile Officer

Williams, a businessman and Veteran, was a New York congressman from 2023 to 2025. During his time in the Navy, he served as a Nuclear Submarine officer, and Strategic Missile officer. He graduated from Pepperdine University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Wells Griffith
Former Senior Director for Energy and Environment on the National Security Council | Former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Energy

During the first Trump administration, Griffith served as the senior director for Energy and Environment on the National Security Council, as well as acting assistant secretary for International Affairs at the Department of Energy. He went on to be senior advisor and managing director to the CEO of the US International Development Finance Corporation before working for FTI consulting.

Tristan Abbey
Former President of Comarus Analytics LLC

Abbey was the President of Comarus Analytics LLC. Before that, he served as professional staff of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Abbey has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford and a master’s from Georgetown.

Brendan Carr
Commissioner of FCC

The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, Carr previously served as the FCC’s general counsel. Nominated by both President Trump and President Biden, Carr has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times.

Olivia Trusty
Policy Director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Trusty is currently the policy director on the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. She previously worked handling telecommunications and technology for Senator Wicker, worked on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, and worked as legislative assistant for Congressman Latta.

Andrew N. Ferguson
Commissioner of The Federal Trade Commission

Before starting his role as commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in April of 2024, Ferguson was the solicitor general of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has also served as chief counsel to Sen. Mitch McConnell and as a republican counsel on the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

Mark R. Meador
Former Advisor for Senator Mike Lee

Meador spent three years advising Senator Mike Lee, the ranking republican on the Senate antitrust subcommittee, before starting the law firm Kressin Meador Powers. Before his time with Lee, Meador was an attorney for the FTC from 2011 to 2016, and a trial attorney for the DOJ Antitrust Division from 2019 to 2021.

L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President of the Media Research Center

Bozell spent 38 years as the founder and president of the Media Research Center. He was the founder and first president of the Parents Television Council, and he spent time as the finance director, then president, of the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the National Conservative Foundation.

Michael Stuart
Former State Senator of West Virginia

Stuart, a former state senator from West Virginia, unsuccessfully ran for West Virginia attorney general in 2024. In 2016, Stuart ran President Trump’s campaign in West Virginia and then served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia from 2018 to 2021. Prior to that, Stuart was the chair of West Virginia’s republican party.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Doctor and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University

Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. He also holds positions as an associate and senior fellow at several renowned research institutes. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world.

Brad Smith
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Russell Street Ventures

Smith is the Founder and chief executive officer of Russell Street Ventures. He has also served as chairman and chief executive officer of Main Street Health, Executive chairman of CareBridge, co-founder and chief executive officer of Aspire Health and chief operating officer of Anthem’s Diversified Business Group. In government, Smith served as deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, senior advisor to the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

Rachel Riley
Former McKinsey & Company Employee

Riley previously worked at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company for approximately eight years, most recently as a partner leading teams that advised the firm’s state and federal government clients.

Susan Monarez
Former Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health Official

Monarez joined the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), where she worked on artificial intelligence initiatives. She had previously served at HHS, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Security Council. Monarez holds a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of Wisconsin and completed her postdoctoral training in the same fields at Stanford University.

Stephanie Carlton
Partner at McKinsey & Company

Before becoming a partner at McKinsey & Company, Carlton led Medicare Advantage and Medicaid policy issues for the republican staff of the US Senate Finance Committee and worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Georgetown University Hospital. She has guest lectured at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, served as a Fall 2022 resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics and was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin’s business school. Carlton has also served on the boards of the Health Care Cost Institute, Ignite Health Foundation and the University of Texas McCombs Alumni Association.

Troy Edgar
Former Chief Financial Officer and Associate Deputy Undersecretary of Management for Homeland Security

Edgar, currently an executive at IBM, served three terms as the Mayor of Los Alamitos, California. Edgar also founded Global Conductor, a management consulting firm, serving as its president and CEO before serving for the first Trump administration. He hosts a podcast, Ameritocracy, and is a US Navy Veteran.

Sean Curran
Former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division

Curran served as the assistant special agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division during the first Trump administrations. He started working for the Secret Service in 2001 as a special agent in the Newark Field Office. He was one of the agents who protected the President during the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Caleb Vitello
Assistant Director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs| Former White House Director of Interior Enforcement

Before Vitello’s current position at ICE as assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs, he served as chief of staff in ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). He joined ICE after his time at the White House as the director of Interior Enforcement.

Rodney S. Scott
24^th Chief of the US Border Patrol

From 2020 to 2021 Scott served as the chief of the US Border Patrol, a division of Customs and Border Protection with over 20,000 agents. Before this role, he held the positions of chief patrol agent for the El Centro and the San Diego sector, anti-terrorism advisor to the CBP Commissioner, and the deputy executive director of the CBP’s Office of Anti-Terrorism.

Katharine MacGregor
Vice President of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc.

MacGregor, the vice president of Environmental Services at NextEra Energy, Inc., worked at the Department of Interior under Trump. Before joining the Trump administration, MacGregor spent over 10 years as a staffer at the US House of Representatives. More than half of that time was spent working for the House Committee on Natural Resources.

William L. Doffermyre
Former Vice President and General Counsel for the Overseas Private Investment Corp

During the first Trump administration, Doffermyre served as vice president and general counsel for the Overseas Private Investment Corp. After that, Dofferyre went on to be a senior director of Energy Transfer’s Alternative Energy Group and general counsel of Lake Charles LNG Export Company, a subsidiary of ET.

Dan Bongino
Podcast Host, Former Secret Service Officer

Bongino began his career in public service in 1995 with the NYPD before joining the Secret Service in 1999. He later hosted the conservative podcast, The Dan Bongino Show and has provided commentary for Fox News. Bongino holds an MBA from Penn State University and both a MA and BA from the City University of New York.

Kash Patel
Former Prosecutor

Patel is a former prosecutor at the US Department of Justice. Previously, he was chief of staff to the US Secretary of Defense during the first Trump Administration. He was also a US National Security Council official, and senior advisor to the acting director of National Intelligence. Patel would be the first non-FBI agent to lead the FBI.

Todd Blanche
Criminal Defense Attorney for Trump

Blanche is a lawyer who oversaw President Trump’s defense against multiple indictments.

Blanche rose to head violent crimes at the Southern District of New York, before heading to WilmerHale. Blanche then launched his own law practice, taking on President Trump as a client.

Chad Mizelle
Former General Counsel at DHS | Former Chief of Staff at the DHS

Mizelle is the chief legal officer at Affinity Partners, before which he was of counsel with the law firm Jones Day. During Trump’s first administration, Mizelle served as general counsel and chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security. He is married to Kathryn Mizelle, a Trump-appointed judge who struck down the federal mask mandate.

Gadyaces S. Serralta
Former Marshal for the Southern District of Florida

Before Serralta was appointed Marshal for the Southern District of Florida, he rose to the rank of major with the Miami-Dade Police Department, a career that began there in 1990. He was also the police chief for the Palmetto Bay Policing Unit in the city of Palmetto Bay, Florida.

Aaron Reitz
Former Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz

Before serving as Senator Ted Cruz’s chief of staff, Reitz was Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s deputy. He was an officer in the US Marine Corps, where he spent five years deployed in Afghanistan. He graduated from Texas A&M University and has a law degree from University of Texas School of Law.

Leo Terrell
Civil Rights Attorney| Radio Host

Terrell, is a former Fox News contributor, public school teacher, radio host and civil rights attorney. He joined the NAACP in 1990 and was an advisory board member for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a member of the Statewide Commission Against Hate Crimes and the chairman of the Black-Korean Alliance.  

D. John Sauer
Former Solicitor General of Missouri

Sauer is a former federal prosecutor who served as Missouri’s solicitor general from 2017 to 2023. In that role, he tried to intervene on behalf of Missouri and five other states in support of Texas’ unsuccessful fight to keep President Trump in power by challenging the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Sauer went on to successfully represent President Trump at the Supreme Court in his bid for presidential immunity.

Joseph Nocella, Jr.
Former District Court Judge | Family Court Judge

Judge Nocella served as a Nassau County District Court judge and Family Court judge. He has a law degree from Columbia Law School and spent over ten years in private practice. Nocella was also an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1991 to 1995.

Harmeet K. Dhillon
Managing Partner of the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. | Founder of the Center for American Liberty

Dhillon, a member of the Sikh religious community, is the managing partner of the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. Dhillon is the former vice chair of the California GOP. She also founded the nonprofit law firm the Center for American Liberty.

Gail Slater
Former Tech Policy Advisor on the National Economic Council, the FTC, advisor in JD Vance’s senate office

Slater is an experienced lawyer and tech and media policy advisor who worked for FOX Corporation and Roku, along with other tech groups. Slater, a former policy advisor for vice president JD Vance’s Senate office, also served as a tech policy advisor at the National Economic Council under President Trump.

Terry Cole
Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security

Cole spent 22 years at the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). During that time, he served as the chief of staff and executive officer at the DEA/ Department of Justice Special Operations Division, the DEA representative to the National Security Council and chief of staff and executive officer for the DEA Chief of Global Operations. He then went on the serve as Virginia’s secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security under Governor Glenn Youngkin.